HSK 5 · Verbs

睁 zhēng “to open (one’s eyes)” in Chinese

Traditional 睜

What 睁 means

  1. to open (one’s eyes)

How to say 睁

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale睁zhēng1st tone, high and level

睁 in a sentence

  1. 睁大你的眼睛！

    Zhēng dà nǐ de yǎnjing!

    Open your eyes wide!

    Sentence #1438454 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 请睁开眼睛。

    Qǐng zhēngkāi yǎnjing.

    Open your eyes, please.

    Sentence #1438437 from Tatoeba

  3. 我现在能睁眼吗？

    Wǒ xiànzài néng zhēng yǎn ma?

    Can I open my eyes now?

    Sentence #6120904 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 睁 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 睁 (zhēng) with each of its parts in a different colour
睁zhēngto open
  • 目eye · mùMeaning part
  • 争to dispute · zhēngSound part

目 hints at the meaning (eye); 争 (zhēng) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhēng.

How to write 睁

睁 11 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

睁 (zhēng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 睁 (zhēng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 睁

More words: Common Verbs

召开zhàokāi · to convene (a conference or meeting)针对zhēnduì · to target振动zhèndòng · to vibrate争取zhēngqǔ · to fight for指导zhǐdǎo · to guide指挥zhǐhuī · to conduct制定zhìdìng · to draw up制造zhìzào · to manufacture

FAQs

睁 (zhēng) means “to open (one’s eyes)”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it zhēng: zhēng with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 睁 is written 睜. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zheng with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 睁 from the suggestions. Typing zheng into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
睁 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.