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眼睛

yǎn jing 3–5

eye

HSK level
HSK 2
HSK 2.0 level 2 · HSK 3.0 level 2
Characters
2
眼 · 睛
Syllables
2
yǎn jing
Frequency
Common
corpus count 814

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 眼yǎn11 strokesHSK 2eye; eyelet, hole, opening
  • 睛jīng13 strokesHSK 2eyeball; pupil of eye

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 张开眼睛。

    Zhāng kāi yǎn jing

    Open your eyes.

  • 我的眼睛痛。

    Wǒ de yǎn jing tòng

    My eyes hurt.

  • 我的眼睛很痛。

    Wǒ de yǎn jing hěn tòng

    My eyes are sore.

  • 她看着我的眼睛。

    Tā kàn zhe wǒ de yǎn jing

    She looked me in the eye.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 眼睛. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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