brows raised in delight, eyes laughing (idiom); beaming with joy; all smiles
trad. 眉開眼笑
Also written 眉開眼笑【méi kāi yǎn xiào】
Characters in this word
4眉
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eyebrow, upper margin
- Pinyin
- méi
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 48246 of 2500
开
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to open (transitive or intransitive), (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start, to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run, to boil, to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc), (directional complement) away; off, carat (gold), abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1 er3 wen2], abbr. for 開本|开本[kai1 ben3], book format
- Pinyin
- kāi
- Traditional
- 開
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 467 of 2500
眼
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eye (CL:隻|只[zhi1],雙|双[shuang1]), (often used with 一[yi1]) a look; a glance, small hole, (bound form) salient point, classifier for wells, cave-dwellings etc
- Pinyin
- yǎn
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 4324 of 2500
笑
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old variant of 笑[xiao4]
- Pinyin
- xiào
- Traditional
- 咲
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 534 of 2500