mei4 jyu5眉宇
Jyutpingmei4 jyu5
Yalemèih yúh
Definition
The space between the eyebrows, or a person's facial expression.
- the space between the eyebrows; the forehead
- facial appearance or expression
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How it's used
Refers specifically to the area between the eyebrows and the forehead, often used in literary or descriptive contexts to convey a person's temperament or current mood. While it appears in formal writing, it is also used in spoken Cantonese when describing someone's character or emotional state through their facial expressions. It carries a slightly more elegant or dramatic tone compared to simply saying 額頭.
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Avoid using this to refer to the forehead in a purely anatomical or medical sense, as it carries a poetic weight that makes it sound unnatural in clinical or casual everyday descriptions of physical features.
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Grammar guides
- Directional complementsThe small words added after a verb to show direction of movement, like up, down, out, in, and back. Common in everyday Cantonese.
- DemonstrativesThis and that with 呢 and 嗰, the personal pronouns, and how 哋 turns I, you, and he into we, you all, and they.
- Resultative complementsSticking a result word onto a verb to show how it turned out, like eat until full or look and find. A productive everyday pattern.
