The Chinese word for eyebrow is
眉毛
méi maoChinese Definition
eyebrow | |
1. 眉 | |
2. 眉毛 | |
Components | |
眉 | |
1. eyebrow | |
2. (by extension) upper margin of a book, leaflet, or page; header | |
Antonyms: 腳 | |
毛 | |
1. hair (of humans or animals); fur; feather | |
雞毛 - chicken feather | |
2. (dialectal) hair on the head | |
3. mildew; mold | |
4. (colloquial) jiao; one tenth of a yuan or dollar; ten cents; dime | |
一 毛 錢 - a jiao / ten cents | |
三 塊 兩 毛 - three yuan and two jiao / three dollars and twenty cents | |
五毛黨 - wumao | |
5. coarse; raw; semifinished | |
毛茶 - raw tea | |
6. (of an amount) gross | |
Antonyms: 淨 | |
毛利 - gross profit | |
毛重 - gross weight | |
7. rough; sketchy | |
毛估 - to make a rough estimate | |
8. small; little | |
毛毛雨 - drizzle | |
毛孩子zi - mere child | |
9. careless; unthinking | |
毛手毛腳 - to be careless | |
10. panicked; scared; nervous | |
把 我 嚇 毛 了 - to have scared me | |
11. angry; furious | |
12. (of currency) depreciated | |
13. (mainland, colloquial or slang) no; nothing; damn all; my ass | |
有 毛 用 - be not effective or useful, to be of damn-all use | |
管 毛 用 - be not effective or useful, to be of damn-all use | |
14. (Cantonese, colloquial, always with the classifier) nothing; damn all; jack shit; bugger all | |
Synonyms: 春 | |
你 識 條 毛 咩? - Do you know anything at all? | |
15. (ACG) hair (in unnatural colours) | |
白 毛 - the character with white-coloured hair | |
假毛 - wig | |
^毛 ^澤-東 - Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung), founder of the People's Republic of China | |
16. usage. In Standard Chinese, for hair on the human head, use 頭髮 instead. |
Translations for 毛 and their definitions
眉毛 | |
1. n. eyebrow | |
2. usage. In Cantonese, it usually refers to the individual hairs on the eyebrow, not the entire eyebrow itself. |
眼眉 | |
1. n. (regional) eyebrow |
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méi mao
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