Spectacles in Chinese
spectacles · HSK 4
眼镜
- 眼 eye
- 镜 mirror
Counted with 副: 一副眼镜
我忘了戴眼镜，看不清楚。 I forgot to wear my glasses and can't see clearly.
More words with 眼 or 镜
How do you say spectacles in Chinese?
Spectacles in Chinese is 眼镜 (yǎn jìng).
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.