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一目了然

yī mù liǎo rán

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word

一目了然 (yī mù liǎo rán) means "obvious at a glance (idiom); obvious at a glance (idiom)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 一目了然 means

1. obvious at a glance (idiom)

Other readings

一目了然 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• yī mù liǎo ránobvious at a glance (idiom)

The characters in 一目了然

• 一yīone; single; a (article)
• 目mùeye; (literary) to look; to regard; eye (of a net); mesh
• 了le(completed action marker); (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)…
• 然ráncorrect; right; so

Example sentences

• 男人老不老,自己心中有数;女人老不老,别人一目了然.
  Nánrén lǎo bù lǎo, zìjǐ xīnzhōngyǒushù; nǚrén lǎo bù lǎo, biéren yīmùliǎorán.
  A man is as old as he feels and a woman as old as she looks.

Where 一目了然 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yī (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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