眉 (méi)
Eyebrow.
How 眉 is written
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 丨 — line
- Traditional
- 眉
- Simplified
- 眉 (unchanged)
Components
- 丨 line
- 目 eye
Common words using 眉
- 眉毛 méimao
- eyebrow; CL:根[gen1]
- 眉眼 méiyǎn
- brows and eyes; appearance; looks
- 美眉 měiméi
- pretty girl (colloquial)
- 峨眉 éméi
- Emei township in Hsinchu county 新竹縣|新竹县[Xin1 zhu2 xian4], northwest Taiwan
- 峨眉山 éméishān
- Mt Emei in Sichuan, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and Bodhimanda of Samantabhadra 普賢|普贤; Emeishan city
- 皺眉 zhòuméi
- to frown; to knit one's brow
- 眉來眼去 méiláiyǎnqù
- lit. eyes and eyebrows come and go (idiom); to make eyes; to exchange flirting glances with sb
- 眉山 méishān
- Meishan prefecture level city in Sichuan
- 眉梢 méishāo
- tip of brow
- 眉清目秀 méiqīngmùxiù
- pretty; with delicate features
- 眉目 méimù
- general facial appearance; features; arrangement
- 眉筆 méibǐ
- eyebrow pencil (cosmetics)
眉 in a sentence
她的眉毛畫得很漂亮。
Tā de méimáo huà de hěn piàoliang.
“Her eyebrows are drawn beautifully.”
How common is 眉?
眉 is the 1,458th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 94.3% of all running text.
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