紅色很漂亮，但還比不過藍色。

The color red is beautiful, but it can't beat blue.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 紅色 hóngsè
  1. red (color)
  2. revolutionary
2 很 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
3 漂亮 piàoliang pretty; beautiful
4 但 dàn
  1. but; yet; however; still
  2. merely; only; just
=5 還 Huán surname Huan
=5 還 hái
  1. still
  2. still in progress
  3. still more
  4. yet
  5. even more
  6. in addition
  7. fairly
  8. passably (good)
  9. as early as
  10. even
  11. also
  12. else
=5 還 huán
  1. to pay back
  2. to return
=5 還 xuán
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 旋 (“to rotate; to turn around”)
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) immediately
  3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) nimble; agile
  4. alternative form of 旋 (“to rotate; to turn around”)
  5. immediately
  6. nimble; agile
=6 比 Bǐ
  1. Belgium
  2. Belgian
  3. abbr. for 比利时 Bǐlìshí
=6 比 bī euphemistic variant of 屄 bī
=6 比 bǐ
  1. to compare
  2. (followed by a noun and adjective) more {adj.} than {noun}
  3. ratio
  4. to gesture
  5. (Taiwan pr. bì in some compounds derived from Classical Chinese)
=6 比 pí
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) used in 師比／师比 (shīpí, “ancient belt hook”)
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) used in 比蒲 (“placename”)
  3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) used in 皋比 (gāopí, “tiger skin”)
  4. used in 師比／师比 (shīpí, “ancient belt hook”)
  5. used in 比蒲 (“placename”)
  6. used in 皋比 (gāopí, “tiger skin”)
=6 比 bì
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) close; near
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) dense; closely packed
  3. close; near
  4. dense; closely packed
=6 比 pǐ
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 庀 (pǐ, “to have; to possess”)
  2. alternative form of 庀 (pǐ, “to have; to possess”)
7 不過 bùguò
  1. only
  2. merely
  3. no more than
  4. but
  5. however
  6. anyway (to get back to a previous topic)
  7. cannot be more (after adjectival)
8 藍色 lánsè blue (color)