A name from a poem
嫣然
Pinyin yān ránusually a girl’s name
A smile that softens the room.
What’s wished for
One backward glance, a smile that lights a hundred charms — Bai Juyi. Not the verb phrase: a warm smile people remember.
Where it comes from
回眸一笑百媚生
huí móu yī xiào bǎi mèi shēng
“When she turned her eyes and smiled, a hundred charms were born;”
— Bai Juyi, “Song of Everlasting Sorrow” (长恨歌)
About the two characters
- 嫣
- lovely smile; bright beauty
- 然
- so, thus
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