Chinese Word of the Day

眼睛
yǎn jing

eye

Definitions

Chinese > English
眼睛	yǎnjing, yǎnjīng
1. n. eye; eyes
眼睛jing 顏色 - eye color
張開眼睛 - to open one's eyes
閉上shang 眼睛 - to close one's eyes
你的眼睛jing 很漂亮liang。 - You have beautiful eyes.
光線太強，我的眼睛jing 有點受不bu了liǎo。 - The light was too strong for my eyes.
你怎麼在這兒r 看書啊，燈光這麼暗的，對眼睛jing 多不好啊。 - Why are you reading here? The light is so dim — it's not good for your eyes.
2. n. (mahjong) two identical tiles which are an essential part of a legal winning hand
English > Chinese
eye
1. 名词. 眼
Components
眼	yǎn
1. (anatomy) eye
2. sight; vision
瞪了他一眼 - to give him a stare
一眼睇嗮 - to be able to see everything in a glance
3. eyelet; aperture; hole; opening
4. tempo in the opera
一板三眼 - one strong beat and three weak beats in the four-beat rhythm
5. territory in game Go (board game).
6. mesh
7. key point; critical moment
8. (Go) trap
9. (Cantonese, mahjong) two identical tiles which are an essential part of a legal winning hand
10. (Cantonese)
睛	jīng
1. eyeball
2. pupil of eye