yǒng​xù

highly talented woman

  • created sense approved 咏絮/詠絮 · yǒng​xù · highly talented woman — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    咏絮 / 詠絮

    yǒng​xù

    highly talented woman

    (literary) to praise a woman for her poetic talent or literary skill; refers to an anecdote about the poet Xie Daoyun, who compared falling snow to willow fluff blowing in the wind

    咏 (bound) → 咏/詠 · yǒng · to express in poetry 絮 (literal) → 絮 · xù · fluff

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense