杏花烟

杏花煙

xìnghuāyān

noun

Meanings

1 apricot-blossom mist
2 a woman's soft, beautiful hair at the temples (literary)

Characters

Examples

她鬓如杏花烟，轻轻笼着一层薄雾。

Tā bìn rú xìnghuāyān, qīngqīng lǒng zhe yī céng bówù.

Her temple-hair was like apricot-blossom mist, wrapped in a soft haze.

诗里那句"杏花烟"形容的是女子鬓发之美。

Shī lǐ nà jù "xìnghuāyān" xíngróng de shì nǚzǐ bìnfà zhī měi.

The phrase 'apricot-blossom mist' in the poem describes the beauty of a woman's temple hair.

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Purely literary imagery — you'll see it in old poetry, essentially never in modern speech.

Stroke Order

杏 xìng

花 huā

烟 yān