méi kāi yǎn xiào

Traditional: 眉開眼笑

HSK 7–9

眉开眼笑 (méi kāi yǎn xiào) is a Chinese word meaning “brows raised in delight, eyes laughing (idiom); beaming with joy; all smiles”.

Meanings

  1. 1brows raised in delight, eyes laughing (idiom); beaming with joy
  2. 2all smiles

Characters in 眉开眼笑

眉méi · eyebrow开kāi · to open (transitive or intransitive)眼yǎn · eye (CL:隻|只[zhi1],雙|双[shuang1])笑xiào · to laugh; to smile

Related words

开始to begin开to open (transitive or intransitive)离开to depart; to leave笑to laugh; to smile笑old variant of 笑[xiao4]开心to feel happy眼睛eye打开to open玩笑to joke开枪to open fire眼eye (CL:隻|只[zhi1],雙|双[shuang1])放开to let go

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