diu6窕
Jyutpingdiu6
Yalediuh
Definition
Quiet and secluded; elegant and slender.
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How it's used
Primarily used in literary or descriptive contexts to evoke a sense of peaceful isolation or graceful thinness. While it can describe physical appearance, it is less common in casual speech than 瘦 for general thinness. It often carries an aesthetic quality, suggesting a refined or elegant kind of seclusion.
Examples
This alley is very secluded, not many people walk here.
Her figure is very slender, she looks especially good dancing.
Related words
Common phrases
slender and graceful
Common mistake
Do not confuse this with 佻, which relates to being frivolous or flirtatious. The two characters look very similar but have completely different meanings.
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Grammar guides
- Directional complementsThe small words added after a verb to show direction of movement, like up, down, out, in, and back. Common in everyday Cantonese.
- DemonstrativesThis and that with 呢 and 嗰, the personal pronouns, and how 哋 turns I, you, and he into we, you all, and they.
- Resultative complementsSticking a result word onto a verb to show how it turned out, like eat until full or look and find. A productive everyday pattern.
