HSK 6 · Verbs

炫耀 xuànyào “to show off” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 炫耀 means

  1. to show off
  2. to flaunt
  3. dazzling

How to say 炫耀

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale炫xuàn4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale耀yào4th tone, falling

炫耀 in a sentence

  1. 不要太炫耀这个了。

    Búyào tài xuànyào zhè ge le.

    Don’t show off about it so much.

    Sentence #461537 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 雅尼炫耀他的新车。

    Yǎní xuànyào tā de xīn chē.

    Yanni was showing off his new car.

    Sentence #13321239 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 西班牙队像往常一样炫耀他们一脚传球的球技。

    Xībānyá duì xiàng wǎngcháng yíyàng xuànyào tāmen yì jiǎo chuánqiú de qiújì.

    As usual, the Spanish team showed off their one-touch passing.

    Sentence #3579633 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 炫耀 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 炫 (xuàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
炫xuànto dazzle
  • 火fire · huǒMeaning part
  • 玄profound · xuánSound part

火 hints at the meaning (fire); 玄 (xuán) hints at the sound. Compare it with xuàn.

The character 耀 (yào) with each of its parts in a different colour
耀yàobrilliant
  • 光light · guāng
  • 翟long-tailed pheasant · dí

How to write 炫耀

炫 9 strokes · 耀 20 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

炫耀 (xuànyào) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 炫耀 (xuànyào). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 炫耀

Words with 耀

耀眼yàoyǎn · dazzling照耀zhàoyào · to shine on

More words: Common Verbs

修复xiūfù · to repair修建xiūjiàn · to build选拔xuǎnbá · to select (the best)悬挂xuánguà · to hang旋转xuánzhuǎn · to rotate削弱xuēruò · to weaken寻觅xúnmì · to seek掩盖yǎngài · to cover up

FAQs

炫耀 (xuànyào) means “to show off” or “to flaunt”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it xuànyào: xuàn with a 4th tone, then yào with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 炫耀 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xuanyao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 炫耀 from the suggestions. Typing xuanyao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
炫耀 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.