📖 Meaning
To express the charm, interest, and emotional quality of something to the fullest extent. It describes a performance, description, or portrayal so vivid and complete that the essence of the feeling is fully conveyed.
📜 Origin Story
The idiom appears in Chapter 93 of Dream of the Red Chamber (红楼梦), the great novel by Cao Xueqin of the Qing dynasty. In the passage, the actor Jiang Yuhan plays Qin Xiaoguan, a role who attends to the flower queen (huakui) in her drunken state, portraying the tender, chivalrous attitude of pitying and cherishing a beautiful woman with complete and vivid thoroughness. The author uses the phrase to praise how fully and vividly the character's feelings were rendered in performance.
💡 Example Usage
那幅山水画将江南的烟雨意境表现得极情尽致。
That landscape painting captures the misty-rain mood of Jiangnan to the fullest, conveying its artistic charm with complete vividness.
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🔤 Quick Facts
- Chinese: 极情尽致
- Pinyin: jí qíng jìn zhì
- Literal Translation: utmost feeling, fully refined
- Category: Emotion
- Characters: 4