as lithe as a swallow (of athlete or beautiful girl)
trad. 身輕如燕
Also written 身輕如燕【shēn qīng rú yàn】
Characters in this word
4身
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body, life, oneself, personally, one's morality and conduct, the main part of a structure or body, pregnant, classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset, Kangxi radical 158
- Pinyin
- shēn
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 3095 of 2500
轻
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light, easy, gentle, soft, reckless, unimportant, frivolous, small in number, unstressed, neutral, to disparage
- Pinyin
- qīng
- Traditional
- 輕
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 5057 of 2500
如
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as, as if, such as
- Pinyin
- rú
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 1252 of 2500
燕
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Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning, north Hebei, the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕[Qian2 Yan1] (337–370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕[Hou4 Yan1] (384–409), Southern Yan 南燕[Nan2 Yan1] (398–410), Northern Yan 北燕[Bei3 Yan1] (409–436), surname Yan
- Pinyin
- Yān
- Strokes
- 16