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閉月羞花
  bai3 jyut6 sau1 faa1   jyutping
  bi4 yue4 xiu1 hua1   pinyin
said of a women's beauty; outshine the moon and put flowers to shame; gorgeous

Idiom
adjective

Level: 3
This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
閉月羞花 / 闭月羞花

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Characters in this word:

 bai3  -  shut; close; obstruct
 jyut6  -  moon; month
 sau1  -  shameful; ashamed; shame
 faa1  -  flower

1 compounds containing this word:

沉魚落雁,閉月羞花 - (of feminine beauty) makes fish sink and birds alight, the moon fades and flowers close
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