眼
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eye (CL:隻|只[zhi1],雙|双[shuang1]); (often used with 一[yi1]) a look; a glance; small hole; (bound form) salient point; classifier for wells, cave-dwellings etc
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 2
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 目 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 眼
- Common rank
- #88
- Unicode
- U+773C
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
eyelet · Heisig RSH #1150
目 eye + silver
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 眼
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 心眼大 | magnanimous; considerate; thoughtful; able to think of everything that needs to be thought… | |
| 小心眼儿 | small-minded; petty; narrow-minded | |
| 大小眼 | one eye bigger than the other | |
| 心眼儿 | one's thoughts; mind; intention; willingness to accept new ideas; baseless suspicions | |
| 小心眼 | narrow-minded; petty | |
| 心眼小 | see 小心眼[xiao3 xin1 yan3] | |
| 有心眼 | to have good sense; to be quick-witted; to be shrewd | |
| 电子眼 | electronic eye; bionic eye; surveillance camera; (esp.) traffic enforcement camera | |
| 一眼 | a glance; a quick look; a glimpse | |
| 眼中 | in (sb's) eyes | |
| 心眼 | heart; intention; conscience; consideration; cleverness; tolerance | |
| 眼生 | unfamiliar; strange-looking | |
| 天眼 | nickname of the FAST radio telescope (in Guizhou) | |
| 马眼 | male's pee hole | |
| 白眼 | to give sb a dirty look; to cast a supercilious glance; a disdainful look | |
| 眼白 | white of the eye | |
| 眼动 | eye movement | |
| 心眼多 | to have unfounded doubts; overconcerned | |
| 手眼通天 | (idiom) to be highly influential and well-connected; to have the ability to get things don… | |
| 眼花 | dimmed eyesight; blurred; vague and unclear vision |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 艮 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 艮 sound part | blunt; tough, chewy | |
| 根 | root, basis, foundation | |
| 银 | silver; cash, money, wealth | |
| 退 | to retreat, to step back, to withdraw | |
| 限 | boundary, limit, line | |
| 恨 | to dislike, to hate, to resent | |
| 跟 | heel; to accompany, to follow; with | |
| 痕 | scar, mark; vestige, trace | |
| 龈 | gums | |
| 狠 | vicious, fierce, cruel | |
| 垦 | to cultivate, to farm; to reclaim | |
| 恳 | sincere, earnest, cordial | |
| 垠 | boundary, river bank | |
| 哏 | the clamor of an argument; funny; odd | |
| 很 | very, quite, much | |
| 茛 | ranunculus | |
| 裉 | a garment seam |