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Learn about the idiom 「開眉笑眼」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

A happy and cheerful look. Same as “open eyebrows and eyes”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

kāi méi xiào yǎn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hoi1 mei4 siu3 ngaan5

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