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Chinese
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Noun
柔荑
- (literary) bud of the cogon grass (Imperata cylindrica)
手如柔荑。膚如凝脂。
手如柔荑。肤如凝脂。 - From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Shǒu rú róutí. Fū rú níngzhī.
- Her fingers were like the blades of the young white-grass;
Her skin was like congealed ointment;
- (literary, by extension) bud; shoot
- (literary, figurative) soft and beautiful hand of a woman
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