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目不交睫

mù bù jiāo jié

4-character word

What 目不交睫 means

1. lit. the eyelashes do not come together (idiom)
2. fig. to not sleep a wink

The characters in 目不交睫

• 目mùeye; (literary) to look; to regard; eye (of a net); mesh
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 交jiāoto hand over; to deliver; to pay (money); to turn over; to make friends…
• 睫jiéeyelashes

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