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眨眼

zhǎ yǎn

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

眨眼 (zhǎ yǎn) means "to blink; to wink; in the twinkling of an eye". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 眨眼 means

1. to blink
2. to wink
3. in the twinkling of an eye

The characters in 眨眼

• 眨zhǎto blink; to wink
• 眼yǎneye; (often used with 一; small hole

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.
• 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.
• 戴维朝安妮眨了眨眼，然后俯身越过桌子，从朵拉的手指间夺过她刚刚轻轻咬了一小口的蛋糕，张大嘴巴，把整块蛋糕塞了进去。
  Davy winked at Anne, and then, leaning over the table, snatched Dora's first piece of cake, from which she had just taken one dainty little bite, out of her very fingers and, opening his mouth to the fullest extent, crammed the whole slice in.

Words starting with 眨眼

• 眨眼睛zhǎ yǎn jīngwink

Words containing 眨眼

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

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zhǎ yǎn correctly.
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