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情人眼里出西施

qíng rén yǎn lǐ chū Xī shī

7-character word Traditional 情人眼裡出西施

What 情人眼里出西施 means

1. lit. in the eyes of a lover appears {西施|Xī shī} (idiom); fig. beauty is in the eye of the beholder

The characters in 情人眼里出西施

• 情qíng(bound form) feelings; emotion; sentiment; passion; (bound form) situation; condition
• 人rénperson; people
• 眼yǎneye; (often used with 一; small hole
• 里lǐlining; interior; inside
• 出chūto go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield
• 西xīwest
• 施shī(bound form) to put into effect (regulations etc); to distribute (alms etc)…

Example sentences

• 情人眼里出西施。
  Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.