sè​shuāi'ài​chí

love fades as beauty withers

  • created sense approved 色衰爱弛/色衰愛弛 · sè​shuāi'ài​chí · love fades as beauty withers — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    色衰爱弛 / 色衰愛弛

    sè​shuāi'ài​chí

    love fades as beauty withers

    (idiom) a woman loses her partner's affection as her physical beauty declines with age

    sè​shuāi'ài​shǐ

    色 (literal) → 色 · sè · sex 衰 (literal) → 衰 · shuāi · to decline 爱 (literal) → 爱/愛 · ài · love 弛 (literal) → 弛 · chí · to relax

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

    created sense