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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

眉开眼笑的

Pronunciation / Transliteration: méi kāi yǎn xiào de

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Beamish/ˈbiː.mɪʃ/
adjectiveCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #14500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"她带着眉开眼笑的表情迎接了新的一天。"

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2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Bright, cheerful, and optimistic in disposition.

    "She greeted the morning sun with a beamish smile."
  2. 2

    Radiant or glowing with happiness.

    "The children had beamish expressions as they opened their gifts."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Coinage coined by author Lewis Carroll in his 1871 nonsense poem Through the Looking-Glass, likely blending the English nouns 'beam' and 'happy' or 'stylish'. It entered broader literary and whimsical English usage to describe someone as bright, cheerful, and radiant.

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