婉 wǎn
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wǎn
adjective
graceful; tactful
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '婉'; Guoyu '婉' 1; Unihan '婉') -
wǎn
adjective
restrained
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Unihan '婉') -
wǎn
adjective
beautiful
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '婉' 2)
Contained in
- 婉词(婉詞) euphemism (tactful expression for something unpleasant such as death)
- 委婉语(委婉語) euphemism
- 婉拒 to tactfully decline; to turn down gracefully
- 委婉 tactful; euphemistic
- 哀婉 melancholy; sad and moving
- 婉称(婉稱) euphemism (tactful expression for something unpleasant such as death)
- 婉辞(婉辭) tactful expression; to politely decline
- 婉言 tactful; diplomatic; mild and indirect
- 温婉(溫婉) sweet-tempered; gentle
- 谐婉(諧婉) mild and harmonious
- 婉妙 sweet; soft; lovely (of sounds and voices)
- 委婉词(委婉詞) euphemism
- 清婉 clear and soft (voice)
- 凄婉(悽婉) sad ; melancholy; moving and sad; sweet and piteous
- 婉转(婉轉) (voice, music) suave; mellow; (speech) indirect; tactful
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- 卷二百四十三 列傳第二 后妃下 Volume 243 Biographies 2: Empresses and Consorts 2 History of Song 宋史 — count: 19
- 卷七十六 列傳第一 后妃上 Volume 76 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts 1 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 17
- 卷五十一 列傳第一: 后妃上 Volume 51 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts 1 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 16
- 卷十三 列傳第一: 后妃上 Volume 13 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts 1 History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 10
- 卷二十四 Scroll 24 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 10
- 卷十九 Scroll 19 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 7
- 卷三十四 Scroll 34 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 6
- 卷二十一 Scroll 21 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 6
- 卷三十二 Scroll 32 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 6
- 卷三十一 列傳第一 后妃上 Volume 31 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts Part One Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 5
Collocations
- 婉儿 (婉兒) 名婉兒 — Old Book of Tang 舊唐書, 卷五十一 列傳第一: 后妃上 Volume 51 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts 1 — count: 28
- 婉仪 (婉儀) 婉儀 — History of the Northern Dynasties 北史, 卷十三 列傳第一: 后妃上 Volume 13 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts 1 — count: 18
- 婉容 (婉容) 必有婉容 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《祭義》 The Meaning of Sacrifices — count: 17
- 婉顺 (婉順) 崇近婉順之行 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷八十五 谷永杜鄴傳 Volume 85: Gu Yong and Du Ye — count: 16
- 婉娈 (婉孌) 婉孌董公 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷一百下 敍傳 Volume 100b: Afterword and Family History 2 — count: 9
- 性婉 (性婉) 嫻都性婉順 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷十四 宗室四王三侯列傳 Volume 14: Biographies of the Imperial Clan, Four Princes and Three Marquises — count: 8
- 婉丽 (婉麗) 慕容氏姿容婉麗 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷九十六 列傳第六十六 列女 Volume 96 Biographies 66: Exemplary Women — count: 7
- 御婉 (禦婉) 禦婉 — Book of Sui 隋書, 卷7 志第2 禮儀二 Volume 7 Treatises 2: Rites 2 — count: 5
- 令婉 (令婉) 令婉然通順 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷七十八 列傳第四十八 孔愉 丁潭 陶回 Volume 78 Biographies 48: Kong Yu; Ding Tan; Zhang Mao; Tao Hui — count: 5
- 婉淑 (婉淑) 姿德婉淑 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷13 皇后列傳 Volume 13: Bigraphies of Empresses — count: 5