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眨

zhǎ

HSK 6 Character

What 眨 means

1. to blink
2. to wink

Example sentences

• 我在眨眼。
  I was blinking.
• 它发生在一眨眼之间。
  Tā fāshēng zài yīzhǎyǎn zhījiān.
  It happened in the blink of an eye.
• 人平均一分钟眨几次眼睛？
  How many times a minute does the average person blink?
• 眨个眼的功夫，贡特就不见了。
  In a wink, Gunter was gone.
• 消防员一眨眼的功夫就把火给灭了。
  The firefighters put out the fire in the blink of an eye.
• 女人的思维很有跳跃性：从仰慕到爱慕，从爱慕到结婚都是一眨眼间的事。
  Nǚrén de sīwéi hěn yǒu tiàoyuè xìng: cóng yǎngmù dào àimù, cóng àimù dào jiéhūn dōu shì yīzhǎyǎn jiān de shì.
  A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.

Words starting with 眨

• 眨眼zhǎ yǎnto blink; to wink; in the twinkling of an eye
• 眨巴zhǎ bato blink; to wink
• 眨眼睛zhǎ yǎn jīngwink

Words containing 眨

• 一眨眼yī zhǎ yǎnin a wink
• 眼眨毛yǎn zhǎ máo(dialect) eyelashes
• 杀人不眨眼shā rén bù zhǎ yǎnto murder without blinking an eye (idiom); ruthless; cold-blooded

Characters that look like 眨

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 旺wàngprosperous; flourishing; (of flowers) blooming
• 贬biǎnto diminish; to demote; to reduce or devaluate
• 昵nìfamiliar; intimate; to approach
• 盹dǔndoze; nap
• 瓯ōu(pottery) bowl or drinking vessel
• 砚yànink-stone

Sounds the same

Read zhǎ, tone for tone, but written differently.

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• 苲see 苲草
• 鲝variant of 鲊; variant of 苲