{"path":"/entry/62099","title":"沉鱼落雁 / 沉魚落雁 (chén yú luò yàn) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"沉鱼落雁 / 沉魚落雁 (chén yú luò yàn): literally fish sink, goose alights (idiom, from Zhuangzi 庄子 Zhuāng zǐ) · figuratively female beauty captivating even the birds and beasts. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":62099,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["沉鱼落雁"],"TRADITIONAL":["沉魚落雁"]}},"phonetic":"chén yú luò yàn","phoneticKey":"chen2 yu2 luo4 yan4","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"literally fish sink, goose alights ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom, from Zhuangzi ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null},{"kind":"REF","text":null,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["庄子"],"TRADITIONAL":["莊子"]}},"phonetic":"Zhuāng zǐ","phoneticKey":"Zhuang1 zi3","readingId":92570},{"kind":"TEXT","text":")","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"figuratively female beauty captivating even the birds and beasts","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["NOUN","IDIOM"],"frequency":64168,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[{"label":null,"relations":[{"kind":"SYNONYM","readingId":111276,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["闭月羞花"],"TRADITIONAL":["閉月羞花"]}},"phonetic":"bì yuè xiū huā","gloss":{"simplified":"literally hiding the moon, shaming the flowers (idiom)","traditional":null}},{"kind":"SYNONYM","readingId":91598,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["花容月貌"],"TRADITIONAL":["花容月貌"]}},"phonetic":"huā róng yuè mào","gloss":{"simplified":"literally countenance of a flower, face like the moon (idiom)","traditional":null}}],"primary":true}],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From Zhuangzi (in the chapter \"Discussion on Making All Things Equal\"):","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"沉鱼 (chén yú) often refers to Xi Shi and 落雁 (lùo yàn) often refers to Wang Zhaojun.","traditional":"沉魚 (chén yú) often refers to Xi Shi and 落雁 (lùo yàn) often refers to Wang Zhaojun."}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"毛嫱、丽姬，人之所美也，鱼见之深入，鸟见之高飞，麋鹿见之决骤。四者孰知天下之正色哉？","traditional":"毛嬙、麗姬，人之所美也，魚見之深入，鳥見之高飛，麋鹿見之決驟。四者孰知天下之正色哉？"},"phonetic":"Máoqiáng, Lìjī, rén zhī suǒ měi yě, yú jiàn zhī shēn rù, niǎo jiàn zhī gāo fēi, mílù jiàn zhī jué zhòu. Sì zhě shú zhī tiānxià zhī zhèng sè zāi?","english":"Mao Qiang and Li Ji [courtesans and two of the Four Beauties] are what people consider beautiful, but if fish see them they will swim into the depths; if birds see them, they will fly away into the air; if deer see them, they will gallop away. Among these four, who knows what is rightly beautiful in the world?","ref":"Zhuangzi, circa 3ʳᵈ – 2ⁿᵈ centuries BCE"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}