| Change log entry 73656 | |
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| Processed by: | goldyn_chyld (2021-10-18 06:23:23 GMT) |
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<< review queue entry 69380 - submitted by 'richwarm' >> 1) Various dicts, esp LA. 2) Re: "used ... in female given names" e.g. 彭丽媛 https://forvo.com/word/%E5%BD%AD%E4%B8%BD%E5%AA%9B/#zh (also Wp article on her: pinyin: "Péng Lìyuán") Also, PLC says 媛[yuan2] means 'pretty [in female names]' 3) Language Log: The focus of the anti-beauty rhetoric is concentrated in a single word that, until recently, was of only moderate frequency (#4078 out of 9933): yuàn 媛 ("beauty; glamorous woman"). The animus of the movement against feminine beauty is exposed through the locutions with which it is associated: míngyuàn 名媛 ("female celebrity") — a long-standing term bìngyuàn 病媛 ("bedridden beauty") — this and the following terms have only recently become popular líyuàn 离媛 ("socialite divorcee") yīyuàn 医媛 ("pretty doctor") xuéyuàn 学媛 ("studious beauty") zhījiàoyuàn 支教媛 ("volunteer socialite") yìshùyuàn 艺术媛 ("artistic beauty") https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=52312 |
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- 媛 媛 [yuan2] /beautiful (woman)/ # + 媛 媛 [yuan2] /(bound form) used in 嬋媛|婵媛[chan2 yuan2] and in female given names/ + 媛 媛 [yuan2] /used in 嬋媛|婵媛[chan2 yuan2] and in female names/ # - 媛 媛 [yuan4] /a beauty/ # + 媛 媛 [yuan4] /(bound form) beautiful woman/Taiwan pr. [yuan2]/ + 媛 媛 [yuan4] /(bound form) beautiful woman/ # = 嬋媛 婵媛 [chan2 yuan2] /(of a woman) graceful/to be interwoven/to be emotionally involved/ # - 名媛 名媛 [ming2 yuan2] /young lady of note/debutante/ + 名媛 名媛 [ming2 yuan4] /young lady of note/debutante/ |