恭维
gōng​wei HSK7

compliment

恭维 (恭維) gōng​wei
compliment verb
to praise or speak highly of someone, often to please them or out of politeness

他这番话显然是在恭维你。

tā zhè fān huà xiǎn​rán shì zài gōng​wei nǐ.

His words were clearly intended as a compliment to you.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
4.26 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
2.73 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7

Cross-References

Has variant

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)