bìng​xī​shī

sickly beauty

  • created reference approved 病西施 → 西施 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    病西施 bìng​xī​shī

    西施 xī​shī

    see

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 病西施 · bìng​xī​shī · sickly beauty — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    病西施

    bìng​xī​shī

    sickly beauty

    A beautiful but frail or sickly woman; refers to the legendary beauty [[西施|西施|xi1 shi1]] who was said to look even more beautiful when she was ill.

    病 (literal) → 病 · bìng · illness 西施 (literal) → 西施 · xī​shī · Xi Shi

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

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