Eye in Chinese
eye · HSK 2
眼睛
- 眼 eye
- 睛 eye
Counted with 只: 一只眼睛
她的眼睛又大又亮。 Her eyes are big and bright.
Other ways to say eye
More words with 眼 or 睛
How do you say eye in Chinese?
Eye in Chinese is 眼睛 (yǎn jing). You can also say 眼 (yǎn).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.