爭妍
Chinese
| struggle; fight | beautiful | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (爭妍) | 爭 | 妍 | |
| simp. (争妍) | 争 | 妍 | |
Pronunciation
Verb
爭妍
- (literary) to contend for colorful looks and beauty
- 遂簡美女二人，曰南無曰俊貞，聚徒三百餘人。二女爭妍，貞引南無强勸酒醉而投河殺之。 [Korean Literary Sinitic, trad.]
- From: 1215, 《海東高僧傳》 (Biographies of Great Monks of Korea)
- Su gan minyeo i in, wal Nammu wal Jun Jeong, chwi jong sambaek yeo in. I nyeo jaeng'yeon, Jeong in Nammu gang gwon ju chwi i tu ha sal ji. [Sino-Korean]
- Afterwards, they selected two beautiful women, named Nammu and Jun Jeong, and they gathered more than three hundred followers. [But] the two women fought over who was more beautiful; Jeong lured Nammu in, coerced her into drinking alcohol and becoming intoxicated, then murdered her by hurling her into a river.
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