Definition

1. 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.

adj

1. graceful