夸奖
kuā jiǎng
Pinyin

Definition

夸奖
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kuā jiǎng
  1. to praise
  2. to applaud
  3. to compliment

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

中奖
zhòng jiǎng
  1. 1 to win a prize
  2. 2 a successful gamble
大奖
dà jiǎng
  1. 1 prize
  2. 2 award
抽奖
chōu jiǎng
  1. 1 to draw a prize
  2. 2 a lottery
  3. 3 a raffle
奖
jiǎng
  1. 1 prize
  2. 2 award
  3. 3 encouragement
  4. 4 CL:個|个[gè]
奖励
jiǎng lì
  1. 1 to reward
  2. 2 reward (as encouragement)
奖品
jiǎng pǐn
  1. 1 award
  2. 2 prize
年终奖
nián zhōng jiǎng
  1. 1 year-end bonus
得奖
dé jiǎng
  1. 1 to win a prize
浮夸
fú kuā
  1. 1 to exaggerate
  2. 2 to be boastful
  3. 3 pompous
  4. 4 grandiose
奖金
jiǎng jīn
  1. 1 premium
  2. 2 award money
  3. 3 bonus
奖项
jiǎng xiàng
  1. 1 award
  2. 2 prize
  3. 3 CL:項|项[xiàng]
获奖
huò jiǎng
  1. 1 to win an award
夸张
kuā zhāng
  1. 1 to exaggerate
  2. 2 overstated
  3. 3 exaggerated
  4. 4 hyperbole
  5. 5 (coll.) excessive
  6. 6 ridiculous
  7. 7 outrageous
金球奖
Jīn qiú jiǎng
  1. 1 Golden Globe Award
颁奖
bān jiǎng
  1. 1 to confer an award
嘉奖
jiā jiǎng
  1. 1 to award
  2. 2 commendation
  3. 3 citation
安慰奖
ān wèi jiǎng
  1. 1 consolation prize
  2. 2 booby prize
授奖
shòu jiǎng
  1. 1 to award a prize
摇奖
yáo jiǎng
  1. 1 to draw the winning ticket (in a lottery)
普利策奖
Pǔ lì cè jiǎng
  1. 1 Pulitzer Prize

Idioms (5)

有劳得奖
yǒu láo dé jiǎng
  1. 1 a good dog deserves a bone (idiom)
有宝何必人前夸
yǒu bǎo hé bì rén qián kuā
  1. 1 There is no need to boast about one's treasures. (idiom)
王婆卖瓜，自卖自夸
wáng pó mài guā , zì mài zì kuā
  1. 1 every potter praises his own pot (idiom)
  2. 2 all one's geese are swans
老王卖瓜，自卖自夸
Lǎo Wáng mài guā , zì mài zì kuā
  1. 1 every potter praises his own pot (idiom)
  2. 2 all one's geese are swans
夸多斗靡
kuā duō dòu mǐ
  1. 1 to compete to produce extravagant literary works (idiom)

Sample Sentences

谢谢您的夸奖。这个用图表和动画演示的主意，是我们团队一起想出来的。
xièxie nín de kuājiǎng 。zhège yòng túbiǎo hé dònghuà yǎnshì de zhǔyi ，shì wǒmen tuánduì yīqǐ xiǎng chūlái de 。
Thank you for your compliment. The use of charts and animations were the team’s idea.
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谢谢你的夸奖。
xièxie nǐ de kuājiǎng 。
Thanks for your praise.
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以前的中国父母就很少夸奖自己的孩子。都说别人的孩子比自己的好。
yǐqián de Zhōngguó fùmǔ jiù hěnshǎo kuājiǎng zìjǐ de háizi 。dōu shuō biérén de háizi bǐ zìjǐ de hǎo 。
Before Chinese parents rarely praised their own children. They'd say other children were better than their own.
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如果孩子做对了，父母应该夸奖他。
rúguǒ háizi zuò duì le ，fùmǔ yīnggāi kuājiǎng tā 。
If kid does something good, parents should praise him.
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大家都夸奖他的字写得很好。
dàjiā dōu kuājiǎng tā de zì xiě de hěn hǎo 。
Everybody praised his writing of Chinese characters.
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夸奖
kuājiǎng
to praise (an action, something someone has done AND attributes)
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啊哟，李菲，我真得谢谢你的夸奖了。
āyō ，Lǐ Fēi ，wǒ zhēn děi xièxie nǐ de kuājiǎng le 。
Wow, Li Fei, I really have to thank you for your praise.
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难得听你这么夸奖一本书，看来我是不买不行了。不过以我现在的汉语水平，看古文还是有点吃力。
nándé tīng nǐ zhème kuājiǎng yī běn shū ，kànlai wǒ shì bù mǎi bù xíng le 。bùguò yǐ wǒ xiànzài de hànyǔ shuǐpíng ，kàn gǔwén hái shì yǒudiǎn chīlì 。
It's rare to hear you praise a book this way. It looks like I'll just have to buy it. But with my current Chinese level, it will be pretty tough for me to understand classical Chinese.
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