秀
xiù HSK4

elegant, excellent

秀 xiù
show place word
a performance, exhibition, or display (loanword)

他在电视上做了一场个人秀。

tā zài diàn​shì shàng zuò le yī cháng gè​rén xiù.

He put on a solo show on television.

bloom verb
to grow, flower, or for grain crops to produce ears

庄稼已经秀穗了。

zhuāng​jia yǐ​jīng xiù suì le.

The crops have started to head out.

elegant adjective
refined, graceful, or beautiful in appearance

这里的山水十分清秀。

zhè​lǐ de shān​shuǐ shí​fēn qīng xiù.

The scenery here is very delicate and beautiful.

superior idiom
outstanding or excellent in quality or talent

他年纪轻轻就表现出色，真是一位后起之秀。

tā nián​jì qīng​qīng jiù biǎo​xiàn chū​sè, zhēn shì yī wèi hòu​qǐ​zhī​xiù.

He has performed brilliantly at a young age; he is truly a rising star.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,136th most common 127.2 per million
Movie subtitles
984th most common 108.1 per million appears in 29% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
71.2 per million appears in 15% of films
Written text
69.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+79C0

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)