浓眉 (nóng méi) — heavy or bushy eyebrows

Definition

noun

heavy or bushy eyebrows

Measure word · 对

浓眉，。
Tā cháng zhe liǎng dào nóng méi, kàn qǐ lái hěn yǒu qì shì.
He has two bushy eyebrows and looks very imposing.
浓眉。
Nà wèi lǎo rén de nóng méi yǐ jīng quán bái le.
That old man's bushy eyebrows have turned completely white.
，浓眉。
Tā shēng qì de shí hou, nóng méi huì jǐn suǒ zài yì qǐ.
When he is angry, his bushy eyebrows knit tightly together.

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

浓 (dense) and 眉 (eyebrow) combine to mean thick eyebrows.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 濃; 浓 is its simplified writing.

氵農濃

Meaning part形符xíngfú

氵Written in full as水shuǐwater

Sound part声符shēngfú

農

農nóng濃nóng

Same sound today

The traditional form 濃 has 氵 as water and 農 as the sound part; this is the form described here.

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

𠃜目眉

眉 originally showed 𠃜, hair, above 目, an eye.