Green-eyed? It’s “眼红(yǎnhóng) Red-eyed” in Chinese!
Colors sometimes can express certain feelings such as a blue mood or a black day. However, how colors relate to emotions can be different in different languages. In the Chinese language, the word “眼红(yǎnhóng)” is an example of this.
In English, there are terms like “green-eyed,” “green-eyed monster” to express that someone is envious or jealous after seeing another person’s success, wealth, fame, good luck etc, and may even want to possess these things.…