傾城

倾城
qīngchéng
  1. coming from everywhere
  2. from all over the place
  3. gorgeous (of woman)
  4. to ruin and overturn the state

CEDICT

  1. (literary) the entire city; all over the place
  2. (literary) to make a city or state collapse
  3. (literary, figurative) drop-dead gorgeous woman; beauty who could drive a man to distraction (and bring about the downfall of an empire)
  4. (literary, figurative, of a woman) drop-dead gorgeous; extremely beautiful (and having the potential of bringing about the downfall of an empire)
  5. drop-dead gorgeous woman; beauty who could drive a man to distraction (and bring about the downfall of an empire)
  6. drop-dead gorgeous; extremely beautiful (and having the potential of bringing about the downfall of an empire)
  7. the entire city; all over the place
  8. to make a city or state collapse

Wiktionary

  1. 傾覆邦國。
  2. 形容極為美麗動人。參見「傾國傾城」條。晉．陶淵明〈閑情賦〉：「表傾城之豔色，期有德於傳聞。」唐．皇甫枚《飛煙傳》：「一睹傾城貌，塵心只自猜。」亦用以借指美人。《文選．阮籍．詠懷詩十七首之二》：「傾城迷下蔡，容好結中腸。」清．況周頤〈曲玉管．兩槳春柔〉詞：「夕陽衰草，滿目江山，不見傾城。」
  3. 滿城、全城。形容人數眾多。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

1 傾 qīng
  1. to overturn
  2. to collapse
  3. to lean
  4. to tend
  5. to incline
  6. to pour out
2 城 chéng
  1. city walls
  2. city
  3. town

classifiers: 座, 道, 個

Containing this entry

傾國傾城 qīngguóqīngchéng
  1. lit. capable of causing the downfall of a city or state (idiom)
  2. fig. (of a woman) devastatingly beautiful
  3. also written 傾城傾國 qīngchéngqīngguó
傾城傾國 qīngchéngqīngguó
  1. lit. capable of causing the downfall of a city or state (idiom)
  2. fig. (of a woman) devastatingly beautiful

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Source: Tatoeba

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