眼泪眼淚 in English

Measure word

• 滴 dī a drop; to drip attested

Character breakdown

• 眼 yǎn eye (CL:隻|只[zhi1],雙|双[shuang1])
• 泪淚 lèi (bound form) tears

Stroke order

How it used to be written

眼

• Small seal script

泪

These are the forms of 淚, the traditional character: 泪 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Clerical script 東漢

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 但是说真的，第21集让我笑得眼泪都要出来了。

  Seriously though, episode 21 made me almost cry while laughing.

• 你最后一次替别人擦眼泪是什么时候？

  When did you last wipe someone's tears away?

• 我没法忍住我的眼泪。

  I could not keep the tears from my eyes.

All example sentences with 眼泪