đoan trang

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 端莊.

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɗwaːn˧˧ t͡ɕaːŋ˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɗwaːŋ˧˧ ʈaːŋ˧˧]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɗwaːŋ˧˧ ʈaːŋ˧˧]

Adjective

đoan trang

(formal or literary, only women) dignified and decorous
Synonym: thuỳ mị
- 1820, Nguyễn Du (阮攸), Đoạn trường tân thanh (Truyện Kiều)‎, published 1866, lines 21–22:
  花(Hoa)唭(cười)玉(ngọc)説(thốt)端(đoan)莊(trang)
  𩄲(Mây)輸(thua)渃(nước)𩯀(tóc)雪(tuyết)讓(nhường)牟(màu)䏧(da)
  Jades tingled in her voice; flowers bloomed from her smile.
  Her speech: educated, chaste and refined.
  Clouds yielded to her hair’s lustrous shine and flow.
  Snow ceded to the silky whiteness of her skin’s glow.

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