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眼珠子

yǎn zhū zi

3-character word

What 眼珠子 means

1. eyeball
2. fig. the apple of one's eye (i.e. favorite person)

The characters in 眼珠子

• 眼yǎneye; (often used with 一; small hole
• 珠zhūbead; pearl
• 子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子

Example sentences

• 当他公开宣布要与巴布罗结婚时，他几乎让祖母心脏病发作，让姑姑的眼珠子都快瞪出来了；然而，他的妹妹却满脸骄傲地笑了。
  When he openly declared he would marry Pablo, he almost gave his grandmother a heart attack and made his aunt's eyes burst out of their sockets; however, his little sister beamed with pride.