Chinese MIANZI is a very complex issue in recent years, and the researches often combined with favor, identity, culture and so on. Therefore, based on the data drawing from the CCL corpus, this paper aims to elaborate the pragmatic functions of subcategory MIANZI representations by comparing with the explicit MIANZI representation. The major finding is presented that the pragmatic functions of subcategory MIANZI representations, among others, consist in generating (im)politeness, expressing explicit emotion, and achieving rhetorical effects. This study concludes that Chinese MIANZI can be represented by both explicit main category expressions and subcategory expressions, but their pragmatic functions are distinguishable.