沉鱼落雁
Traditional form:
沉魚落雁
Pinyin (reading):
chényúluòyàn
Definitions:
- lit. fish sink, goose alights (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子／庄子 ( Zhuāngzǐ)); fig. female beauty captivating even the birds and beasts
Characters:
- 沉 - to sink, to submerge; profound, deep
- 鱼 - fish
- 落 - to fall, to drop; surplus, net income
- 雁 - wild goose
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