窈窕
Meanings
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- 1.(literary) (of a woman) graceful and refined; comely; (esp.) slender; slim
- 2.(literary) (of a bower, a mountain stream or a boudoir within a palace etc) secluded
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Wiktionary
- 1.quiet and elegant; graceful and fair; gentle and beautiful
- 2.seductive; flirtatious
- 3.deep; secluded; profound
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Etymology
First syllable 窈 (OC *qiːwʔ, “deep, dim”) is probably cognate to 幽 (OC *qɯw, “dark”); second syllable 窕 (OC *l'eːwʔ, “to bore, to perforate”) is probably related to 竅 (OC *kʰleːwɢs, “hole”) (Schuessler, 2007)
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