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          Haisuphelga
        
      
      Date : 2008-04-30 / 10:05AM
      
        cant you just say hen mae??
cos my bf speaks mandarin and he was said that hen mae is very beautiful, and its so much easier to say!! is there different contexts?
       
      
      
        
        
          
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        | | Chinese Mandarin : Registered on : 2007-08-05Language : NonePosts : 0Responses : 411Comments : 2 | 
 |  | | Jenny Li hotmail.com 2008-04-30 / 10:37AM
 |  |  |  | “Hen3 mei3” means very beautiful. You may also say “piao4 liang4” and “mei3 li4” which all mean beautiful. |  |  | 
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        | | Chinese Mandarin : Registered on : 2007-01-01Language : English, Mandarin ChinesePosts : 0Responses : 2359Comments : 75 | 
 |  | | Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com 2008-04-30 / 03:42PM
 |  |  |  | měi means both “beauty and beautiful”, piào liàng is just an adjective. That’s the difference between those 2 words Benny 
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