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Usage of the character 艳

yàn
[艶]
  • variant of 艷/艳 (yàn)
yàn
[艷]
  • colorful
  • splendid
  • gaudy
  • amorous
  • romantic
  • to envy
yàn
[豔]
  • variant of 艷/艳 (yàn)
yàn
[豓]
  • old variant of 豔/艳 (yàn)
yànsè
艳色
[艷色]
  • beauty
  • glamor
  • voluptuousness
jiāoyàn
娇艳
[嬌豔]
  • tender and beautiful
yànyě
艳冶
[艷冶]
  • bewitching
  • beautiful
yànfú
艳福
[艷福]
  • luck with women
lěngyàn
冷艳
[冷艷]
  • (of a woman) beautiful but aloof
yànzhào
艳照
[艷照]
  • nude picture
fěnyàn
粉艳
[粉艷]
  • (of a woman, a flower etc) delicate colors
yànwǔ
艳舞
[艷舞]
  • erotic dance
jìngyàn
竞艳
[競艷]
  • vying to be the most glamorous
  • each more gorgeous than the other
  • beauty contest
yànyù
艳遇
[艷遇]
  • encounter with a beautiful woman
  • romance
  • affair
yànlì
艳丽
[艷麗]
  • gorgeous
  • garish and beautiful
lièyàn
猎艳
[獵艷]
  • to chase women
  • to express oneself in a pompous flowery style
tǔyàn
吐艳
[吐艷]
  • to burst into bloom
yànshī
艳诗
[艷詩]
  • erotic verse
āiyàn
哀艳
[哀艷]
  • plaintive and beautiful
  • melancholy but gorgeous
jīngyàn
惊艳
[驚艷]
  • stunning
  • breathtaking
yěyàn
冶艳
[冶艷]
  • bewitching
  • beautiful
nóngyàn
浓艳
[濃艷]
  • (of colors) garish
  • rich
xiānyàn
鲜艳
[鮮艷]
  • bright-colored; gaily-colored
měiyàn
美艳
[美艷]
  • beautiful and alluring
  • glamorous
  • gorgeous
yànxiàn
艳羡
[艷羨]
  • (literary) to admire; to envy
xiāngyàn
香艳
[香艷]
  • alluring
  • erotic
  • romantic
yāoyàn
妖艳
[妖艷]
  • pretty and flirtatious
guāngyàn
光艳
[光艷]
  • bright and colorful; gorgeous
yànqíng
艳情
[艷情]
  • romantic love
  • romance
  • erotic (novel etc)
yànyángtiān
艳阳天
[豔陽天]
  • bright sunny day; blazing hot day
hóngyànyàn
红艳艳
[紅艷艷]
  • brilliant red
yànhóngsè
艳红色
[艷紅色]
  • crimson
yànrútáolǐ
艳如桃李
[艷如桃李]
  • lit. beautiful as peach and prune
  • fig. radiant beauty
nóngzhuāngyànmǒ
浓妆艳抹
[濃妝艷抹]
  • to apply makeup conspicuously (idiom)
  • dressed to the nines and wearing makeup
Qínhuáibāyàn
秦淮八艳
[秦淮八艷]
  • the famous eight beautiful and talented courtesans who lived near the Qinhuai River 秦淮河 ( Qínhuái Hé) in the late Ming or early Qing
zhēngyándòuyàn
争妍斗艳
[爭妍鬥艷]
  • contending for supreme beauty (esp. of flowers, scenery, painting etc)
  • vying in beauty and glamor