表面 (biǎo miàn) means “surface; face; outside; appearance”. It is an HSK 5 Chinese word in the HSK 3.0 vocabulary.
Practice each character:
表面上看起来不错。
Biǎomiàn shàng kànqǐlái búcuò.
On the surface it looks good.
Updated: 2026-05-27