• 281st most frequent character
  • Adds ~0.08% to your reading coverage
  • 1 dictionary entry
  • Appears in 187 words
  • Component in 0 characters

Decomposition

1Once
2Radical
3Graphical

Pinyin & Meaning

1. yǎn (yan3)eye • small hole • crux (of a matter) • CL:隻|只[zhi1],雙|双[shuang1] • classifier for big hollow things (wells, stoves, pots etc)

Pronunciation Clues

There are no phonetic clues for this character.
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Example Words

High Frequency

 
眼泪 (眼淚)
眼睛 
眼神 

Medium Frequency

一眼 
不起眼 
傻眼 
冷眼 
刺眼 
合眼 
单眼皮 (單眼皮)
字眼 
小心眼 
心眼 
挑花眼 
抢眼 (搶眼)
满眼 (滿眼)
熊猫眼 (熊貓眼)
白眼 
眉眼 
眨眼 
眼下 
眼光 
眼前 
眼力 
眼圈 
眼影 
眼熟 
眼珠 
眼球 
眼皮 
眼看 
眼眶 
眼睁睁 (眼睜睜)
眼红 (眼紅)
眼线 (眼線)
眼花 
眼袋 
眼角 
眼镜 (眼鏡)
睁眼 (睜眼)
瞎眼 
耀眼 
着眼 (著眼)
亲眼 (親眼)
猫眼 (貓眼)
转眼 (轉眼)
开眼 (開眼)
双眼皮 (雙眼皮)
电眼 (電眼)
顺眼 (順眼)
龙眼 (龍眼)
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  • 1269th most frequent character
  • Adds <0.01% to your reading coverage
  • 1 dictionary entry
  • Appears in 25 words
  • Component in 0 characters

Decomposition

1Once
3Graphical

Pinyin & Meaning

1. lèi (lei4)tears

Pronunciation Clues

1. Pronunciation clue for lèi (lei4)The component is pronounced as '' (li4). It has the same pinyin initial.
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Example Words

High Frequency

流泪 (流淚)
 ()
眼泪 (眼淚)

Medium Frequency

催泪 (催淚)
泪光 (淚光)
泪水 (淚水)
泪流满面 (淚流滿面)
落泪 (落淚)
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Decomposition Levels:
Level 1 - Once: Only divided once. So only two components.
Level 2 - Radical: Radical Decomposition. The character gets decomposed into its lowest radical components. For the complete list visit the Radical wikipedia page.
Level 3 - Graphical: Graphical Decomposition. Shows all the strokes & lowest level of components that make up the character.
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