情人眼里出西施
Traditional form:
情人眼裡出西施
Pinyin (reading):
qíngrényǎnlǐchū Xīshī
Definitions:
- lit. in the eyes of a lover appears 西施 ( Xīshī) (idiom); fig. beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Characters:
- 情 - emotion, feeling, sentiment
- 人 - man, person; people
- 眼 - eyelet, hole, opening
- 里 - unit of distance equal to 0.5km; village; lane
- 出 - to go out, to send out; stand; produce
- 西 - west, western, westward
- 施 - to grant, to bestow; to act; surname
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