开怀
kāihuái
to one’s heart’s content
Part of speech · adverb / verb
Pattern visualization
Examples
- 大家开怀大笑。Everyone laughed heartily.
- 老友重逢,开怀畅饮。Old friends reunited and drank to their hearts’ content.
Collocations
开怀大笑开怀畅饮开怀一笑开怀
Mnemonic
开 kāi "to open" + 怀 huái "bosom, heart": to open one’s bosom wide, i.e. heartily, to one’s heart’s content. Korean renders it as "heartily, freely". It depicts enjoying with an open, unburdened heart and mainly precedes 大笑 (to laugh aloud) or 畅饮 (to drink one’s fill), as in 开怀大笑 (to laugh heartily). 怀 means "bosom, to cherish" (怀念, 胸怀); 开 means "to open". A figure of an "opened" heart.
Related
尽情畅快舒畅尽兴
Quick check
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