得意
Pinyin: dé yì
proud; pleased with oneself
Example sentence
他得意地笑了。
Tā déyì de xiào le.
He smiled smugly.
What 得意 means
得意 (dé yì) is a Chinese word meaning “proud; pleased with oneself”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at HSK 4, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.