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Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「皓齒明眸」, with details below.

This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「皓齒明眸」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

Hao: the appearance of white; Mou: eyeball, generally refers to eyes. White teeth, bright eyes. It is used to describe a woman’s beautiful appearance and also refers to a beautiful woman.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

hào chǐ míng móu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hou6 chi2 ming4 mau4

The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.