秀色可餐
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Chinese[edit]
beautiful facial features | can; may; able to can; may; able to; certain(ly); to suit; (particle used for emphasis) |
eat; meal | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
trad. (秀色可餐) | 秀色 | 可 | 餐 | |
simp. #(秀色可餐) | 秀色 | 可 | 餐 | |
Literally: “a beautiful countenance that can be eaten”. |
Etymology[edit]
From a line in the poem 《日出東南隅行》 by Lu Ji (陸機):
Pronunciation[edit]
Idiom[edit]
秀色可餐
- (of a woman) extremely attractive; breathtakingly beautiful
Categories:
- Literary Chinese terms with usage examples
- Mandarin terms with audio links
- Chinese lemmas
- Mandarin lemmas
- Cantonese lemmas
- Teochew lemmas
- Chinese four-character idioms
- Mandarin four-character idioms
- Cantonese four-character idioms
- Teochew four-character idioms
- Chinese idioms
- Mandarin idioms
- Cantonese idioms
- Teochew idioms
- Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation