đoan trang

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Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 端莊.

Pronunciation

Adjective

đoan trang

  1. (formal or literary, only women) dignified and decorous
    Synonym: thuỳ mị
    • 1820, Nguyễn Du (阮攸), Đoạn trường tân thanh (Truyện Kiều)‎, published 1866, lines 21–22:
      花(Hoa)唭(cười)玉(ngọc)説(thốt)端(đoan)莊(trang)
      𩄲(Mây)輸(thua)渃(nước)𩯀(tóc)雪(tuyết)讓(nhường)牟(màu)䏧(da)
      Jades tingled in her voice; flowers bloomed from her smile.
      Her speech: educated, chaste and refined.
      Clouds yielded to her hair’s lustrous shine and flow.
      Snow ceded to the silky whiteness of her skin’s glow.
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