Definition

1. Noun:
   • A beautiful woman; a pretty girl: "Mỹ nữ" refers to a woman or girl who possesses physical beauty, often emphasizing graceful and attractive features.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Trong truyện cổ tích thường có những mỹ nữ. (Fairy tales often feature beautiful women.)
  • Cô ấy được mệnh danh là mỹ nữ của làng. (She is renowned as the village beauty.)

Advanced Usage

• Literary and Classical Context: The term "mỹ nữ" is often used in literary, historical, or formal contexts to describe a woman of notable beauty, sometimes with a classical or elegant connotation.
  • Tranh vẽ mô tả một mỹ nữ thời xưa. (The painting depicts a beauty from ancient times.)

Variants and Related Words

• Giai nhân (noun): A belle; a beauty (often used in poetry and literature with a similar meaning to "mỹ nữ").
• Người đẹp (noun): A beautiful person (a more general and modern term for a beautiful woman or man).

Synonyms

• Beauty: A beautiful woman.
• Belle: A beautiful and attractive woman, often the most admired at a gathering.

Related Phrases and Idioms

• Mỹ nữ ngư lạc (Idiom): Literally "a beauty causes fish to sink"; a Vietnamese idiom derived from a Chinese idiom (沉鱼落雁 - chén yú luò yàn), used to describe a woman of breathtaking, mesmerizing beauty.
  • Sắc đẹp của cô ấy đúng là mỹ nữ ngư lạc. (Her beauty is truly one that could make fish sink.)

noun

1. pretty girl