照片美颜

照片美顏
zhàopiànměiyán
phrase

Meanings

  1. 1 photo beautification / filter
  2. 2 face-smoothing / retouching (on photos)

Examples

Tā de tóuxiàng kāi le zhàopiàn měiyán, běnrén wánquán shì lìng yīgè yàngzi.
Her profile pic has a beauty filter on; in person she looks totally different.
Wǒ xiànzài de zìpāi quán kào zhàopiàn měiyán.
These days my selfies rely entirely on photo filters.

Tips

culture
美颜 filters (skin-smoothing, eye-enlarging, face-slimming) are default-on in most Chinese phone cameras (秀秀, 美颜相机). That's why 照骗 ('photo-scam', photos that deceive) became a related dating-app meme.

Stroke Order

zhào
piàn
měi
yán