情人眼裡出西施
简 情人眼里出西施 · 繁 情人眼裡出西施Meanings
- lit. in the eyes of a lover appears 西施 Xī shī (idiom); fig. beauty is 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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- 出
- chū · go out, send out; stand; produce
- 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
2–2–3–3–1–1–1 · qing2 ren2 yan3 li3 chu1 Xi1 shi1
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
cing4 jan4 ngaan5 leoi5 ceot1 sai1 si1
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proverb
- beauty is in the eye of the beholder; love is blind
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