{"id":181277,"date":"2011-10-06T01:04:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T05:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/learn\/chinese-vocabulary-responding-flattery\/"},"modified":"2025-01-24T00:54:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T05:54:46","slug":"chinese-vocabulary-responding-flattery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/chinese\/chinese-vocabulary-responding-flattery\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Respond to Compliments in Chinese in 4 Ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you speak Chinese and have been to China, you probably know that Chinese people love to compliment foreigners on their Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>Next time you get complimented, instead of going back to your standard <strong>\u8c22\u8c22<\/strong> (<em>xi\u00e8xi\u00e8<\/em> &#8211; &#8220;Thank you&#8221;) response, why not vary it up with one of these replies?<\/p>\n<p>[fluentu-toc]<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2><strong>1. \u6ca1\u6709\u6ca1\u6709 <em>(m\u00e9iy\u01d2u m\u00e9iy\u01d2u)<\/em> \u2014 No, no<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This is a standard response that is more humble than \u8c22\u8c22 since you&#8217;re not fully agreeing with the compliment.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>2. \u6ca1\u6709\u90a3\u4e48\u5389\u5bb3 <em>(m\u00e9iy\u01d2u n\u00e0me l\u00ech\u00e0i)<\/em> \u2014 No, I&#8217;m not that awesome<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This is a response that makes sense if your complimenter is really laying it on thick with something like \u4f60\u7684\u4e2d\u6587\u771f\u597d (n\u01d0de zh\u014dngw\u00e9n zh\u0113nh\u01ceo &#8211; &#8220;Your Chinese is really good&#8221;).<\/p>\n<h2><strong>3. \u54ea\u91cc\u54ea\u91cc <em>(n\u01cel\u01d0 n\u01cel\u01d0)<\/em> \u2014 No, not at all<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This is a lot like \u6ca1\u6709\u6ca1\u6709 but sounds slightly more polite. Interestingly, \u54ea\u91cc also means &#8220;Where?&#8221; in questions.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>4. \u8fc7\u5956 <em>(gu\u00f2 ji\u01ceng)<\/em> \u2014 You speak too highly of me<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>If you want to show off a bit while acting modest, this is the &#8220;coolest&#8221; response out of the four responses. Your complimenter may go from thinking your Chinese is pretty good to thinking that it&#8217;s really good.<\/p>\n<p>This is a super versatile one that you can use in any of the following combinations (they all mean basically the same thing):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 20px\"><strong>\u8fc7\u5956<\/strong> (gu\u00f2ji\u01ceng)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 20px\">\u4f60<strong><strong>\u8fc7\u5956<\/strong><\/strong> (n\u01d0 gu\u00f2ji\u01ceng)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 20px\"><strong>\u8fc7\u5956<\/strong>\u4e86 (gu\u00f2ji\u01ceng le)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 20px\">\u4f60<strong>\u8fc7\u5956<\/strong>\u4e86 (n\u01d0 gu\u00f2ji\u01ceng le)<\/p>\n<p>You can see more examples of responding to compliments by watching videos by and for native Chinese speakers on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/chinese\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FluentU<\/a>. <span data-sheets-root=\"1\"><p><strong>FluentU<\/strong> takes authentic videos\u2014like music videos, movie trailers, news and inspiring talks\u2014and turns them into personalized language learning lessons.<\/p>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<p>You can try FluentU for free for 2 weeks. 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