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情人眼裡有西施
简 情人眼里有西施 · 繁 情人眼裡有西施Mandarin · pinyin qíng rén yǎn lǐ yǒu Xī shī
Meanings
- In the eyes of the lover, a famous beauty (idiom). Beauty in the eye of the beholder
Characters in this entry
- 情
- qíng · feeling, sentiment, emotion
- 人
- rén · man; people; mankind; someone else
- 眼
- yǎn · eye; eyelet, hole, opening
- 裡
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- 有
- yǒu · have, own, possess; exist
- 西
- xī · west(ern); westward; occident; Kangxi radical 146
- 施
- shī · grant, bestow; give; act; name
- 里
- lǐ · unit of distance; village; lane; Kangxi radical 166
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Mandarin tones
2–2–3–3–3–1–1 · qing2 ren2 yan3 li3 you3 Xi1 shi1
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Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.Compare dictionary sources 1 Cantonese reading
cing4 jan4 ngaan5 leoi5 jau5 sai1 si1
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