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眼睛

yǎn jing

Old HSK 2 HSK 3.0 level 2 2-character word Measure word 只、双

眼睛 (yǎn jing) means "eye". It is an HSK 3.0 level 2 word, and was HSK 2 in the old six-level list.

What 眼睛 means

1. eye

The characters in 眼睛

• 眼yǎneye; (often used with 一; small hole
• 睛jīngeye; eyeball

Example sentences

• 张开眼睛。
  Open your eyes.
• 睁开眼睛。
  Open your eyes.
• 我眼睛疼。
  My eyes hurt.
• 我眼睛在痒。
  Wǒ yǎnjing zài yǎng.
  My eyes feel itchy.
• 请睁开眼睛。
  Open your eyes, please.
• 我的眼睛疼。
  My eyes hurt.

Words starting with 眼睛

• 眼睛吃冰淇淋yǎn jing chī bīng qí lín(slang; Taiwan) to be checking out the hotties

Words containing 眼睛

• 鼓眼睛gǔ yǎn jīngprotruding eyes
• 没长眼睛méi zhǎng yǎn jing(colloquial) are you blind or something?; look where you're going
• 擦亮眼睛cā liàng yǎn jīngto keep one's eyes open (idiom); to be on one's guard; to be clear-eyed
• 辣眼睛là yǎn jing(neologism c. 2016) (slang) unpleasant to look at; hard on the eyes
• 眨眼睛zhǎ yǎn jīngwink
• 睁着眼睛说瞎话zhēng zhe yǎn jīng shuō xiā huà(idiom) to lie through one's teeth; to talk drivel
• 闭塞眼睛捉麻雀bì sè yǎn jīng zhuō má quèlit. to catch sparrows blindfolded (idiom); fig. to act blindly
• 不长眼睛bù zhǎng yǎn jingsee 没长眼睛

Where 眼睛 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Colors and Appearance (HSK 2), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 2 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yǎn jing correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.