洋气 (洋氣)
yáng qì
Pinyin

Definition

洋气 (洋氣)
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yáng qì
  1. Western style
  2. foreign flavor
  3. trendy
  4. fashionable

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

dà yáng
  1. 1 ocean
  2. 2 (old) silver dollar
Tài píng Yáng
  1. 1 Pacific Ocean
yáng
  1. 1 ocean
  2. 2 vast
  3. 3 foreign
  4. 4 silver dollar or coin
yáng qì
  1. 1 Western style
  2. 2 foreign flavor
  3. 3 trendy
  4. 4 fashionable
yáng yì
  1. 1 brimming with
  2. 2 steeped in

Idioms (11)

喜气洋洋
xǐ qì yáng yáng
  1. 1 full of joy (idiom); jubilation
土洋结合
tǔ yáng jié hé
  1. 1 combining native and foreign methods (idiom); sophisticated and many-sided
崇洋媚外
chóng yáng mèi wài
  1. 1 to revere everything foreign and pander to overseas powers (idiom); blind worship of foreign goods and ideas
望洋兴叹
wàng yáng xīng tàn
  1. 1 lit. to gaze at the ocean and lament one's inadequacy (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to feel powerless and incompetent (to perform a task)
洋场恶少
yáng chǎng è shào
  1. 1 city infested with foreign adventurers (esp. of Shanghai in pre-Liberation China) (idiom)

Sample Sentences

洋气
yángqì
foreign style
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