IDENTITY
眼yǎneye
HSK 1Top 350
CORE MEANING
eye
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.eyeHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 目eye radical (mù)
- strokes
- 11
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰目艮
- eye
- gives the sound yǎn (historical)
USAGE
Common words
眼睛yǎnjingeye
眼镜yǎnjìngglasses
Graded examples
我眼睛累了。Wǒ yǎnjing lèi le.HSK2
My eyes are tired.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
The eye (目) with the sound gèn (艮) — yǎn, eye.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #350
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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