yểu điệu
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Graceful and delicate: Describes a woman's appearance or movements as elegantly slender, softly flowing, and charmingly gentle.
- Lithe and supple: Characterizes a feminine posture or gait that is smoothly agile and effortlessly poised.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Cô ấy có dáng người yểu điệu. (She has a graceful and delicate figure.)
- Nàng bước đi thật yểu điệu. (She walked with a truly lithe and supple grace.)
Advanced Usage
- The term is almost exclusively used to describe the refined and elegant physical qualities or movements of women, often evoking a sense of poetic beauty and fragility.
Variants and Related Words
- Yểu (adj): Tender, delicate, often implying a frail or short-lived beauty (e.g., - a fate of dying young).
- Điệu đà (adj): Affectedly graceful or dainty in manner, sometimes with a slightly more deliberate or coquettish connotation than .
Synonyms
- Graceful: Having elegance and beauty of movement.
- Lithe: Gracefully thin and supple.
- Supple: Bending and moving easily and gracefully.
- Willowy: Tall, slender, and graceful.
Related Idioms
- Liễu yếu đào tơ: A classical idiom describing a young woman as "a weak willow, a tender peach blossom," directly related to the concept of , emphasizing delicate and slender beauty.