DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

閉月羞花

简闭月羞花 · 繁閉月羞花

Mandarin · pinyin bì yuè xiū huā

lit. hiding the moon, shaming the flowers (idiom)
fig. female beauty exceeding even that of the natural world

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

閉: Look up this written character
月: yuè · moon; month; Kangxi radical 74
羞: xiū · disgrace, shame; ashamed; shy
花: huā · flower; blossoms
闭: bì · shut, close; obstruct, block up

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

4–4–1–1 · bi4 yue4 xiu1 hua1

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

4character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

閉月羞花 · find source passages ↗ · 闭月羞花 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗

Compare dictionary sources Rime · Wiktionary

Rime Cantonese 粵拼

bai3 jyut6 sau1 faa1

Cantonese word readings for 閉月羞花. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

CanCLID contributors · CC BY 4.0 · source & license · Data pack

Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

phrase

(of women) extremely beautiful; drop dead gorgeous

Source page · dump 2026-09-02 · Contributors & history

Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source & license · Data pack