秀外慧中 — Chinese idiom
秀外慧中
xiù wài huì zhōng
Meaning
- good-looking and intelligent
Character by character
- 秀xiùelegant, graceful, refined; flowing, luxuriant
- 外wàiout, outside, external; foreign; in addition
- 慧huìbright, intelligent; intelligence
- 中zhōngcentral; center, middle; amidst; to hit (target),
Idioms sharing a character
- 一枝独秀 yī zhī dú xiù
- 山明水秀 shān míng shuǐ xiù
- 山清水秀 shān qīng shuǐ xiù
- 后起之秀 hòu qǐ zhī xiù
- 秀色可餐 xiù sè kě cān
- 钟灵毓秀 zhōng líng yù xiù
- 九霄云外 jiǔ xiāo yún wài
- 付之度外 fù zhī dù wài
- 内忧外困 nèi yōu wài kùn
- 内忧外患 nèi yōu wài huàn
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