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. 美人細長而彎曲的眉毛，如蠶蛾的觸鬢，故稱為「蛾眉」。唐．溫庭筠〈菩薩蠻．小山重疊金明滅〉詞：「懶起畫蛾眉，弄妝梳洗遲。」也作「娥眉」。
  2. 美人。明．陳與郊《文姬入塞》：「蛾眉自困龍城也，怕問洛陽枝葉。」也作「娥眉」。

重編國語辭典

  1. 姿色美好
  2. 美人，美女
  3. 蠶蛾觸鬚細長而彎曲，借指女子美麗的眉毛

維基詞典

Entry Composition

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

Containing this entry

蛾眉皓齒 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
嬋娟 chánjuān
  1. (literary) beautiful woman
  2. (literary) lovely; graceful
  3. (literary) the moon
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