juān
adjective #15,119

Meanings

  1. 1 beautiful
  2. 2 graceful

Examples

Tā xiě de yī shǒu juānxiù de zì.
She writes beautifully elegant characters.
Chánjuān cháng yòng lái xíngróng yuèliàng.
Chanjuan is often used to describe the moon.

Tips

usage
is a bound morpheme, never used alone. Common compounds: (juānxiù, elegant and delicate), (chánjuān, the beautiful moon / a beautiful woman). Also extremely popular as a component of women's names.
culture
appears in Su Shi's famous Mid-Autumn Festival poem: 但愿长久 ('May we live long and share the beauty of the moon across a thousand miles'). One of the most quoted lines in Chinese poetry.

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