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眉毛méi mao
eyebrow
Definitions
| Chinese > English | ||
| 眉毛 | méimáo | |
| 1. n. eyebrow | ||
| 2. usage. In Cantonese, it usually refers to the individual hairs on the eyebrow, not the entire eyebrow itself. | ||
| English > Chinese | ||
| eyebrow | ||
| 1. 眉 | ||
| 2. 眉毛 | ||
| Components | ||
| 眉 | méi | |
| 1. eyebrow | ||
| 2. (by extension) upper margin of a book, leaflet, or page; header | ||
| Antonyms: 腳 | ||
| 毛 | máo, Máo | |
| 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. | ||
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Pronunciation
méi mao
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