掌上明珠 Save Sign in to save words zhǎngshàngmíngzhū ㄓㄤˇ ㄕㄤˋ ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄓㄨ lit. a pearl in the palm (idiom) fig. beloved person (esp. daughter) Character by character 掌(zhǎng)palm of the hand 上(shàng)up 明(míng)Ming Dynasty 珠(zhū)bead A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0