四大美女
sì dà měi nu:3
Pinyin

Definition

四大美女
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sì dà měi nu:3
  1. the four legendary beauties of ancient China, namely: Xishi 西施[Xī shī], Wang Zhaojun 王昭君[Wáng Zhāo jūn], Diaochan 貂蟬|貂蝉[Diāo Chán] and Yang Yuhuan 楊玉環|杨玉环[Yáng Yù huán]

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

四
sì
  1. 1 four
  2. 2 4
大
dà
  1. 1 big
  2. 2 huge
  3. 3 large
  4. 4 major
  5. 5 great
  6. 6 wide
  7. 7 deep
  8. 8 older (than)
  9. 9 oldest
  10. 10 eldest
  11. 11 greatly
  12. 12 very much
  13. 13 (dialect) father
  14. 14 father's elder or younger brother
大吉
dà jí
  1. 1 very auspicious
  2. 2 extremely lucky
大家
dà jiā
  1. 1 everyone
  2. 2 influential family
  3. 3 great expert
大奖
dà jiǎng
  1. 1 prize
  2. 2 award

Idioms (20)

三个女人一台戏
sān ge nǚ rén yī tái xì
  1. 1 three women are enough for a drama (idiom)
不识大体
bù shí dà tǐ
  1. 1 to fail to see the larger issue (idiom)
  2. 2 to fail to grasp the big picture
久仰大名
jiǔ yǎng dà míng
  1. 1 I have been looking forward to meeting you for a long time (idiom)
以小挤大
yǐ xiǎo jǐ dà
  1. 1 minor projects eclipse major ones (idiom)
传播四方
chuán bō sì fāng
  1. 1 to disseminate in every direction (idiom)

Sample Sentences

四个女孩子造型，风格各异。不用说，肯定是四大美女。怪不得看得那么起劲，我看你都快看出鼻血来了。
sì ge nǚháizi zàoxíng ，fēnggé gèyì 。bùyòngshuō ，kěndìng shì sìdàměinǚ 。guàibude kàn de nàme qǐjìnr ，wǒ kàn nǐ dōu kuài kàn chū bíxiě lái le 。
Four women each with their own distinctive styles. You don't need to tell me: these are definitely the Four Great Beauties. No wonder you're so engrossed in them. You look like your nose is about to start bleeding.
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所以啊，四大美女生活在不同时代，标准差得太远，而且长相什么的只存在于人们的想象当中。要想分出个一二三，真的是无解啊。
suǒyǐ a ，sìdàměinǚ shēnghuó zài bùtóng shídài ，biāozhǔn chà de tài yuǎn ，érqiě zhǎngxiàng shénme de zhǐ cúnzài yú rénmen de xiǎngxiàng dāngzhōng 。yào xiǎng fēnchū ge yī\'èrsān ，zhēnde shì wújiě a 。
The Four Great Beauties lived in different eras in which standards of beauty were really different. On top of that, their actual appearance only exists within peoples' imaginations. Therefore, ranking them is an impossible task.
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