畫黛彎蛾
Chinese
| draw; picture; painting | umber-black dye for painting the eyebrow | bend; bent | moth | ||
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| trad. (畫黛彎蛾) | 畫 | 黛 | 彎 | 蛾 | |
| simp. (画黛弯蛾) | 画 | 黛 | 弯 | 蛾 | |
Pronunciation
Idiom
畫黛彎蛾
- (of a woman) having thin and curved eyebrows
- 生如其教，果見嬌娜偕麗人來，畫黛彎蛾，蓮鉤蹴鳳，與嬌娜相伯仲也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: 1740, Pu Songling, 聊齋志異 (Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio)
- Shēng rú qí jiào, guǒ jiàn Jiāonuó xié lì rén lái, huàdàiwān'é, lián gōu cù fèng, yǔ Jiāonuó xiàng bózhòng yě. [Pinyin]
- This Mr. Kong acceded to, and accordingly saw Miss Jiaonuo come out with a lovely girl―her black eyebrows beautifully arched, and her tiny feet encased in phoenix-shaped shoes―as like one another as they well could be.
生如其教，果见娇娜偕丽人来，画黛弯蛾，莲钩蹴凤，与娇娜相伯仲也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
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