đoan trang

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Vietnamese

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Etymology

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Sino-Vietnamese word from 端莊.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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đoan trang

  1. (formal or literary, only women) dignified and decorous
    Synonym: thuỳ mị
    • 1820, Nguyễn Du (阮攸), Đoạn trường tân thanh (Truyện Kiều)[1], published 1866, lines 21–22:
      (Hoa)(cười)(ngọc)(thốt)(đoan)(trang)
      𩄲(Mây)(thua)(nước)𩯀(tóc)(tuyết)(nhường)(màu)(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.