沈魚落雁

Japanese

Etymology

• From Middle Chinese: 沉魚落雁

Idiom

沈魚落雁 (ちんぎょらくがん, chin gyo raku kan)

1. (idiomatic) Beauty truly can be stunning. Lit. Such was her beauty that, in a fluster, fish sank to the bottom of the sea and geese dropped from the sky.

Synonyms

• 羞花閉月

References

• The Kōjien (広辞苑) Dictionary of the Japanese Language, 5th edition, Iwanami Shoten Publishing, Tokyo.