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开眼

kāi yǎn

2-character word Traditional 開眼

What 开眼 means

1. to open one's eyes
2. to widen one's horizons

The characters in 开眼

• 开kāito open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start…
• 眼yǎneye; (often used with 一; small hole

Example sentences

• 张开眼睛。
  Open your eyes.
• 睁开眼睛。
  Open your eyes.
• 请睁开眼睛。
  Open your eyes, please.

Words starting with 开眼

• 开眼界kāi yǎn jièto broaden one's horizons

Words containing 开眼

• 眉开眼笑méi kāi yǎn xiàobrows raised in delight, eyes laughing (idiom); beaming with joy; all smiles
• 大开眼界dà kāi yǎn jiè(idiom) to broaden one's horizons greatly

Sounds the same

Read kāi yǎn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 开演(of a play, movie etc) to begin