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目不转睛

mù bù zhuǎn jīng

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 目不轉睛

目不转睛 (mù bù zhuǎn jīng) means "unable to take one's eyes off (idiom); to gaze steadily; to stare". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 目不转睛 means

1. unable to take one's eyes off (idiom); to gaze steadily
2. to stare

The characters in 目不转睛

• 目mùeye; (literary) to look; to regard; eye (of a net); mesh
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 转zhuǎnto turn; to change direction; to transfer
• 睛jīngeye; eyeball

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