蛾眉

éméi
(fig.) beautiful woman

CEDICT

  1. (literary) woman's long and slender eyebrows (resembling the feathery feelers of a moth)
  2. (literary, metonymic) beautiful woman
  3. beautiful woman
  4. woman's long and slender eyebrows (resembling the feathery feelers of a moth)

Wiktionary

  1. 美人细长而弯曲的眉毛，如蚕蛾的触鬓，故称为「蛾眉」。唐．温庭筠〈菩萨蛮．小山重叠金明灭〉词：「懒起画蛾眉，弄妆梳洗迟。」也作「娥眉」。
  2. 美人。明．陈与郊《文姬入塞》：「蛾眉自困龙城也，怕问洛阳枝叶。」也作「娥眉」。

重編國語辭典

  1. 姿色美好
  2. 美人，美女
  3. 蚕蛾触鬚细长而弯曲，借指女子美丽的眉毛

維基詞典

Entry Composition

1 蛾 é (bound form) moth
2 眉 méi
  1. eyebrow
  2. upper margin

Containing this entry

蛾眉皓齿 éméihàochǐ beautiful eyebrow and white teeth (idiom); lovely young woman
蛾眉月 éméiyuè

Related entries

佳人 jiārén beautiful woman
佳人不可唐突，好酒不可糟蹋，这两件事你以后一定要牢记在心。

You should not be rude towards beauties and you should not waste good wine. You must keep these two things in mind in the future.

Source: Tatoeba

妖女 yāonǚ beautiful woman
妭 bá
  1. (literary) beautiful woman
  2. old variant of 魃 bá
媛 yuàn
  1. (bound form) beautiful woman (in practice, often pronounced yuán)
  2. Taiwan pr. yuán
婵娟 chánjuān
  1. (literary) beautiful woman
  2. (literary) lovely; graceful
  3. (literary) the moon
正妹 zhèngmèi
  1. (Tw) beautiful woman
  2. sexy woman
玉女 yùnǚ
  1. beautiful woman
  2. fairy maiden attending the Daoist immortals
  3. (polite) sb else's daughter
  4. Chinese dodder (Cuscuta chinensis), plant whose seeds are used for TCM
美女 měinǚ beautiful woman
懦夫難贏美女心。

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Source: Tatoeba

娉婷 pīngtíng
  1. (literary) (of a woman) to have a graceful demeanor
  2. beautiful woman
粉黛 fěndài
  1. face powder and eyebrow liner
  2. cosmetics
  3. (fig.) beautiful woman
花枝 huāzhī
  1. spray (sprig of a plant with blossoms)
  2. cuttlefish (on dining menus)
  3. (literary) beautiful woman
我們稱一斤花枝吧。

Let us weigh one catty of cuttlefish.

Source: Tatoeba

粉色 fěnsè
  1. pink
  2. white
  3. erotic
  4. beautiful woman
  5. powdered (with make-up)
我的笔记本是粉色的。

My notebook is pink.

Source: Tatoeba