HSK 5 · Body

眉毛 méimao “eyebrow” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 眉毛 means

  1. eyebrow

Measure word 根 gēn · 一根眉毛 yì gēn méimao

How to say 眉毛

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale眉méi2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own毛maoneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

眉毛 in a sentence

  1. 我讨厌我的眉毛。

    Wǒ tǎoyàn wǒ de méimao.

    I hate my eyebrows.

    Sentence #10484075 from Tatoeba

  2. 小林的眉毛长得浓，眼睛又大，睫毛很长。

    Xiǎo Lín de méimao zhǎng de nóng, yǎnjing yòu dà, jiémáo hěn cháng.

    Xiao Lin has thick eyebrows, big eyes and long eyelashes.

    Sentence #420898 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 眉毛 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 眉 (méi) drawn as one shape
眉méieyebrow

眉 is a single shape of 9 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

The character 毛 (máo) with each of its parts in a different colour
毛máohairlight in 眉毛
  • 乇to depend on · zhé
  • 一one · yī

How to write 眉毛

眉 9 strokes · 毛 4 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

眉毛 (méimao) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 眉毛 (méimao). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 眉毛

Words with 毛

毛máo · hair毛巾máojīn · towel羽毛球yǔmáoqiú · shuttlecock毛病máobìng · fault

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FAQs

眉毛 (méimao) means “eyebrow”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it méimao: méi with a 2nd tone, then mao with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 眉毛 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 根 (gēn). For example, one eyebrow is 一根眉毛 (yì gēn méimao).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type meimao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 眉毛 from the suggestions. Typing meimao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
眉毛 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.