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眼镜

yǎn jìng

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 眼鏡 Measure word 副

眼镜 (yǎn jìng) means "glasses; spectacles". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 眼镜 means

1. spectacles
2. eyeglasses

The characters in 眼镜

• 眼yǎneye; (often used with 一; small hole
• 镜jìngmirror; lens

Example sentences

• 他戴眼镜。
  He is wearing glasses.
• 这眼镜真酷。
  These glasses are cool.
• 把眼镜戴上!
  Put your glasses on.
• 汤姆戴眼镜。
  Tom wears glasses.
• 他讨厌眼镜。
  He hated glasses.
• 我身上没带眼镜
  Wǒ shēnshang méi dài yǎnjìng
  I don't have my glasses with me.

Words starting with 眼镜

• 眼镜蛇yǎn jìng shécobra
• 眼镜片yǎn jìng piànlens (in eyeglasses etc)
• 眼镜猴yǎn jìng hóutarsier monkey

Words containing 眼镜

• 隐形眼镜yǐn xíng yǎn jìngcontact lens
• 大跌眼镜dà diē yǎn jìng(fig.) to be astounded
• 检眼镜jiǎn yǎn jìngophthalmoscope; funduscope
• 配眼镜pèi yǎn jìngto have a pair of prescription glasses made
• 太阳眼镜tài yáng yǎn jìngsunglasses
• 有色眼镜yǒu sè yǎn jìng(idiom) biased perspective; prejudice
• 防护眼镜fáng hù yǎn jìngsafety goggles
• 跌眼镜diē yǎn jìngto be taken aback
• 跌破眼镜diē pò yǎn jìng(fig.) to be astounded
• 印度眼镜蛇Yìn dù yǎn jìng shéIndian cobra (Naja naja)
• 玳瑁眼镜dài mào yǎn jìnghawksbill shell-rimmed eyeglasses

Where 眼镜 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Clothing & Accessories (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yǎn jìng correctly.
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