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The Chinese word for eyebrow is
眉毛

méi mao



eyebrow

Chinese Definition


eyebrow
     1.
     2. 眉毛
Components
     1. eyebrow
     2. (by extension) upper margin of a book, leaflet, or page; header
           Antonyms: 腳
     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 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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