名牌
míng​pái

famous brand

名牌 míng​pái
famous brand noun
famous or well-known brand or trademark

你是不是又买了一双昂贵的名牌鞋？

nǐ shì​bu​shì yòu mǎi le yī shuāng áng​guì de míng​pái xié?

Did you buy another pair of expensive designer shoes?

nameplate noun
nameplate; name tag; a card or board displaying a person's name or the name of an object

他们摘掉了名牌和警徽！

tā​men zhāi diào le míng​pái hé jǐng​huī!

They took off their name tags and badges!

high-status
metonymically used to describe people or institutions with a prestigious reputation

Frequency
Movie subtitles
4.62 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
25.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5

Cross-References

Erhua variant of

Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)