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目光

mù guāng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

目光 (mù guāng) means "gaze; (fig.) attention". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 目光 means

1. gaze; (fig.) attention
2. expression in one's eyes; look
3. (lit. and fig.) sight; vision

The characters in 目光

• 目mùeye; (literary) to look; to regard; eye (of a net); mesh
• 光guānglight; ray; bright; shiny; only; merely

Example sentences

• 他们目光相接。
  Tāmen mùguāng xiāngjiē.
  Their eyes met.
• 背后感受到她的目光。
  I felt her gaze from behind.
• 汤姆瞥了一眼就移开目光了。
  Tāngmǔ piē le yīyǎn jiù yíkāi mùguāng le.
  Tom glanced away.
• 汤姆用怀疑的目光盯着那个高个子男人。
  Tāngmǔ yòng huáiyí de mùguāng dīng zhe nàge gāo gèzi nánrén.
  Tom looked at the tall man suspiciously.
• 你穿那条裙子，一定会惹来许多人的目光。
  Nǐ chuān nà tiáo qúnzi, yīdìng huì rě lái xǔduō rén de mùguāng.
  You're going to turn a lot of heads with that dress.
• 他的目光十分困惑：「我甚么也没听过，所以甚么也说不出来。」
  He said with a perplexed expression, "I've heard nothing, so I can't say anything."

Words starting with 目光

• 目光所及mù guāng suǒ jías far as the eye can see
• 目光如豆mù guāng rú dòushort-sighted; limited vision
• 目光短浅mù guāng duǎn qiǎnto be shortsighted
• 目光呆滞mù guāng dāi zhìto have a lifeless look in one's eyes (idiom)

Where 目光 is taught

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

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read mù guāng correctly.
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