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眉开眼笑

méi kāi yǎn xiào

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 眉開眼笑

眉开眼笑 (méi kāi yǎn xiào) means "brows raised in delight, eyes laughing (idiom); beaming with joy; all smiles". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 眉开眼笑 means

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

The characters in 眉开眼笑

• 眉méieyebrow; upper margin
• 开kāito open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start…
• 眼yǎneye; (often used with 一; small hole
• 笑xiàoto laugh; to smile; to laugh at

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