HSK 3.0 Level 5 · Body

眼 yǎn “eye” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 眼 means

  1. eye
  2. (often used with 一) a look
  3. a glance
  4. small hole
  5. (bound form) salient point
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • classifier for wells, cave-dwellings etc

How to say 眼

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale眼yǎn3rd tone, dipping

眼 in a sentence

  1. 你的眼睛真漂亮。

    Nǐ de yǎnjing zhēn piàoliang.

    Your eyes are really beautiful.

    Sentence #3671251 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 她有绿色的眼睛。

    Tā yǒu lǜsè de yǎnjing.

    She has green eyes.

    Sentence #3076586 from Tatoeba

  3. 他看了我一眼。

    Tā kàn le wǒ yì yǎn.

    He glanced at me.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 眼 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 眼 (yǎn) with each of its parts in a different colour
眼yǎneye 双)
  • 目eye · mùMeaning part
  • 艮stopping · gěnSound part

目 hints at the meaning (eye); 艮 (gěn) hints at the sound. Compare it with yǎn.

How to write 眼

眼 11 strokes

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

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

Words related to 眼

Words with 眼

眼睛yǎnjing · eye眼镜yǎnjìng · glasses眼色yǎnsè · meaningful look眼神yǎnshén · look in one’s eyes耀眼yàoyǎn · dazzling眼光yǎnguāng · vision心眼儿xīnyǎnr · mind

More words: Body & Everyday Things

信xìn · letter卡kǎ · card酒jiǔ · alcohol队duì · team气qì · air

FAQs

眼 (yǎn) means “eye” or “(often used with 一) a look”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 5 word.
Say it yǎn: yǎn with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 眼 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 眼 from the suggestions. Typing yan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
眼 is an HSK 3.0 Level 5 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 3 word list. It is not on the older 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). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.