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眼光

yǎn guāng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

眼光 (yǎn guāng) means "gaze; vision; judgement/perspective". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 眼光 means

1. gaze
2. insight
3. foresight
4. vision
5. way of looking at things

The characters in 眼光

• 眼yǎneye; (often used with 一; small hole
• 光guānglight; ray; bright; shiny; only; merely

Example sentences

• 他很有审美眼光。
  Tā hěn yǒu shěnměiyǎnguāng.
  He has an eye for the beautiful.
• 他对女人没有眼光。
  Tā duì nǚrén méiyǒu yǎnguāng.
  He has no eye for women.
• 她看古董的眼光很好。
  Tā kàn gǔdǒng de yǎnguāng hěn hǎo.
  She has an eye for antiques.
• 玛丽赶紧避开了眼光。
  Mǎlì gǎnjǐn bìkāi le yǎnguāng.
  Mary quickly averted her eyes.
• 他很有鉴赏古董的眼光。
  Tā hěn yǒu jiànshǎng gǔdǒng de yǎnguāng.
  He has an eye for antiques.
• 艺术家必须拥有敏锐的色彩眼光。
  An artist has to have a color-sensitive eye.

Words starting with 眼光

• 眼光短yǎn guāng duǎnshort-sighted

Words containing 眼光

• 有眼光yǒu yǎn guāngto have good taste
• 审美眼光shěn měi yǎn guāngan eye for beauty; aesthetic judgment

Where 眼光 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yǎn (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 yǎn guāng correctly.
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