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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 情人眼里出西施
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 情人眼里出西施 | qíng rén yǎn lǐ chū xī shī | - lit. in the eyes of a lover appears 西施[Xi1 shi1] (idiom); fig. beauty is in the eye of the beholder |
List Ranking:
Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.
| HSK 2 Level (2012) | HSK 3 Band (2022) | SUBTLEX-CH | BeijingUni Global | BeijingUni Weibo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | - | 80,503 | 40,413 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 情 | qíng | - (bound form) feelings; emotion; sentiment; passion - (bound form) situation; condition |
| 人 | rén | - person; people - CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4] |
| 眼 | yǎn | - eye (CL:隻|只[zhi1],雙|双[shuang1]) - (often used with 一[yi1]) a look; a glance - small hole - (bound form) salient point - classifier for wells, cave-dwellings etc |
| 里 | lǐ | - Li (surname) |
| 里 | lǐ | - li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m - neighborhood - ancient administrative unit of 25 families - (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels |
| 里 | lǐ | - variant of 裡|里[li3] |
| 里 | lǐ | - lining - interior - inside - internal - also written 裏|里[li3] |
| 出 | chū | - to go out; to come out - to arise; to occur - to produce; to yield - to go beyond; to exceed - (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result) - classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc |
| 出 | chū | - variant of 出[chu1] (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels) |
| 西 | xī | - the West - abbr. for Spain 西班牙[Xi1 ban1 ya2] - Spanish |
| 西 | xī | - west |
| 施 | shī | - surname Shi |
| 施 | shī | - (bound form) to put into effect (regulations etc) - to distribute (alms etc) - to apply (fertilizer etc) |
Other Words Containing 情人眼里出西施
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| Word | HSK 2 Level (2012) | HSK 3 Band (2022) | SUBTLEX-CH | BeijingUni Global | BeijingUni Weibo |
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