silvery white
Chinese idiom, Pinyin f ě nzhu ā ngy ù Zhu ó, means decorated with white powder and carved with white jade; it describes a beautiful woman or a white child. Also used to describe the snow. From a dream of Red Mansions.
The origin of Idioms
In the first chapter of a dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in the Qing Dynasty: "Shi Yin saw that his daughter was more and more dressed in powder and jade, and he was very happy, so he reached out and hugged him in his arms to play with him."
Idiom usage
Used as predicate, complement and attribute; used in white landscape. example when his head was raised, his cheeks were flushed with pink and jade. The 16th edition of Ye Shengtao's Ni Huanzhi
Chinese PinYin : fěn zhuāng yù zhuó
silvery white
due to all sorts of accidental mishaps. yīn cuò yáng chā
use a stone as a pillow and rinse one 's mouth by means of stream - water -- living in seclusion. zhěn yán shù liú
lookers-on see most of the game. bàng guān zhě qīng