「情人眼裏出西施」
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| Pronunciation： | cing4 jan4 ngaan5 leoi5 ceot1 sai1 si1 |
| Individual Character Meaning： |
情 affection; love; passion; feeling; condition; situation 人 human; human being; person; people; personality; everybody; (some) people; others; somebody; body of a person 眼 eye; hole; aperture; glance; glimpse 裏 inside 出 to go out; to come out; to issue; to publish; to produce; to grow; to appear; to offer; to give; to provide; to go beyond; to use; to bring out; to show 西 west; to spin 施 to put into effect; to execute; to carry out; to enforce; to bestow; to grant; to exert; to impose; to use; to apply |
| Variants： | Variants： 情人眼裡出西施 |
| Part of Speech： | expression |
| Explanation： |
Beauty lies in the lover's eye.; literally: in the lover's eye lies Hsi Shih (one of the "four great beauties" in ancient China)
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