眼睛
yǎn jing 3–5
eye
- Characters
- 2
- 眼 · 睛
- Syllables
- 2
- yǎn jing
- Frequency
- Common
- corpus count 814
Part of speech: n
Character by character
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.
- 眼yǎnHSK 2
eye; small hole; crux (of a matter); classifier for big hollow things (wells, stoves, pots etc)
- 眼前yǎn qiánHSK 3
before one's eyes; now; at present
- 眼神yǎn shénHSK 7
expression or emotion showing in one's eyes; meaningful glance; wink; eyesight (dialect)
- 眼泪yǎn lèiHSK 4
tears; crying
- 眼镜yǎn jìngHSK 4
spectacles; eyeglasses
- 眼里yǎnliHSK 4
In the eyes
- 眼光yǎn guāngHSK 5
gaze; insight; foresight; vision; way of looking at things
- 亲眼qīn yǎnHSK 6
with one's own eyes; personally
- 眼下yǎn xiàHSK 7
now; at present; subocular (medicine)
- 眼看yǎn kànHSK 6
soon; in a moment; to look on as sth happens
- 耀眼yào yǎnHSK 7
to dazzle; dazzling
- 着眼zhuó yǎnHSK 7
to have one's eyes on (a goal); having sth in mind; to concentrate
- 眨眼zhǎ yǎnHSK 7
to blink; to wink; in the twinkling of an eye
- 字眼zì yǎnHSK 7
wording
- 一眼yī yǎnHSK 7
a glance; a quick look; a glimpse
- 显眼xiǎn yǎnHSK 7
conspicuous; eye-catching; glamorous
- 不起眼bù qǐ yǎnHSK 7
unremarkable; nothing out of the ordinary
- 眼界yǎn jièHSK 7
ken; scope
- 转眼zhuǎn yǎnHSK 7
in a flash; in the blink of an eye; to glance
- 抢眼qiǎng yǎnHSK 7
eye-catching
- 眼色yǎn sèHSK 7
signal made with one's eyes; meaningful glance
- 眼红yǎn hóngHSK 7
to covet; envious; jealous; green with envy; infuriated; furious
- 目不转睛mù bù zhuǎn jīngHSK 7
unable to take one's eyes off (idiom); to gaze steadily; to stare
- 红眼hóng yǎnHSK 7
to become infuriated; to see red; envious; jealous; covetous; pink eye (conjunctivitis); red-eye (flight)(photography) red eye