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眼泪

yǎn lèi

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 眼淚 Measure word 滴

眼泪 (yǎn lèi) means "tears; crying". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 眼泪 means

1. tear; teardrop

The characters in 眼泪

• 眼yǎneye; (often used with 一; small hole
• 泪lèi(bound form) tears; teardrops

Example sentences

• 我在流眼泪。
  My eyes are watering.
• 我没法忍住我的眼泪。
  I could not keep the tears from my eyes.
• 眼泪顺着她的脸颊流下来。
  Tears were flowing down her cheeks.
• 眼泪沿着他的脸颊流下来。
  Tears flowed down his cheek.
• 两滴眼泪从她的脸颊滑落下来。
  Liǎng dī yǎnlèi cóng tā de liǎnjiá huáluò xiàlai.
  Two tears fell down her cheeks.
• 她的眼泪已经告诉了发生了什么。
  Tā de yǎnlèi yǐjīng gàosu le fāshēng le shénme.
  Her tears have already told me what has happened.

Words containing 眼泪

• 鳄鱼眼泪è yú yǎn lèicrocodile tears
• 淌眼泪tǎng yǎn lèito shed tears
• 一把眼泪一把鼻涕yī bǎ yǎn lèi yī bǎ bí tìwith one's face covered in tears (idiom)

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