千娇百媚
qiān jiāo bǎi mèi
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 千嬌百媚
Describes a woman who is lovely and captivating in every look and movement. A literary compliment, found in novels, poetry and song lyrics rather than in daily talk.
Tả người phụ nữ xinh đẹp, yêu kiều, dáng vẻ nào cũng quyến rũ. Là lời khen mang màu sắc văn chương, gặp trong tiểu thuyết, thơ ca nhiều hơn trong lời nói thường ngày.
Register: literary
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 062 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 媚 = mị · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “thiên kiều bách mị” (thien-kieu-bach-mi). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “千娇百媚” mean?
Describes a woman who is lovely and captivating in every look and movement. A literary compliment, found in novels, poetry and song lyrics rather than in daily talk. Literally: thousandfold delicate, hundredfold alluring
Is “千娇百媚” formal or informal?
千娇百媚 is generally literary.