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眉毛

méi mao

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Measure word 根

眉毛 (méi mao) means "eyebrow". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 眉毛 means

1. eyebrow

The characters in 眉毛

• 眉méieyebrow; upper margin
• 毛máohair; feather; down

Example sentences

• 我讨厌我的眉毛。
  I hate my eyebrows.
• 玛丽有绿色的眉毛。
  Mary has green eyebrows.
• 小林的眉毛长得浓，眼睛又大，睫毛很长。
  Xiǎolín de méimao zhǎngde nóng, yǎnjing yòu dà, jiémáo hěn cháng.
  Kobayashi's eyebrows are thick, his eyes are big, and his eyelashes are long.

Words starting with 眉毛

• 眉毛钳méi máo qiántweezers
• 眉毛胡子一把抓méi mao hú zi yī bǎ zhuācareless; any-old-how, regardless of the specific task

Words containing 眉毛

• 火烧眉毛huǒ shāo méi maolit. the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom); fig. desperate situation; extreme emergency

Where 眉毛 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Body Parts & Physical Features (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read méi mao correctly.
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