眼 yǎn

1. yǎn noun eye
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (ABC 'yǎn' 眼 n 1; Kroll 2015 '眼' 1, p. 529; NCCED '眼' 1)
2. yǎn measure word measure word for wells
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
   Notes: (ABC 'yǎn' 眼 m; GHC '眼' 4; Kroll 2015 '眼' 4, p. 529; NCCED '眼' 4)
3. yǎn noun eyeball
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 眼珠 (GHC '眼' 1; Kroll 2015 '眼' 1, p. 529)
4. yǎn noun sight
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '眼' 1a, p. 529)
5. yǎn noun the present moment
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '眼' 1b, p. 529)
6. yǎn noun an opening; a small hole
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'yǎn' 眼 n 2; GHC '眼' 3; Kroll 2015 '眼' 2, p. 529; NCCED '眼' 4)
7. yǎn noun a trap
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'yǎn' 眼 n 4; NCCED '眼' 3)
8. yǎn noun insight
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (NCCED '眼' 5)
9. yǎn noun a salitent point
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'yǎn' 眼 n 3; NCCED '眼' 6)
10. yǎn noun a beat with no accent
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Music
    Notes: (NCCED '眼' 7)
11. yǎn verb to look; to glance
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (ABC 'yǎn' 眼 v)
12. yǎn verb to see proof
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 见证 (GHC '眼' 5)

Contained in

• 眼圈 rim of the eye; eye socket
• 烟熏眼(煙熏眼) smoky eyes look (cosmetics)
• 鸡眼(雞眼) corn; callus on the foot resembling a chicken eye
• 瞄一眼 to shoot a glance at
• 有眼不识泰山(有眼不識泰山) to have eyes but fail to recognize Mt Tai; to fail to recognize somebody important or somebody's great talent
• 斗鸡眼(鬥雞眼) cross-eye
• 枪眼(槍眼) loophole (for firing); embrasure
• 肉眼凡胎 ignoramus
• 眼药水(眼藥水) eye drops; eye lotion
• 玳瑁眼镜(玳瑁眼鏡) hawksbill shell-rimmed eyeglasses
• 放眼 to survey; to view broadly
• 眼压(眼壓) intraocular pressure
• 打马虎眼(打馬虎眼) to play dumb; to slack off
• 转眼即逝(轉眼即逝) to pass in an instant; over in the twinkling of an eye
• 心眼多 to have unfounded doubts; overconcerned
• 耀眼 dazzling
• 眼中 in one's eyes
• 眼动(眼動) eye movement
• 眼梢 corner of eye near temple
• 千里眼 clairvoyance
• 睁只眼闭只眼(睜隻眼閉隻眼) to turn a blind eye
• 词眼(詞眼) key word
• 眼泪横流(眼淚橫流) to be overflowing with tears
• 以眼还眼，以牙还牙(以眼還眼，以牙還牙) an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth; to use the enemy's methods against him
• 节骨眼儿(節骨眼兒) critical junction
• 养眼(養眼) visually attractive; eye candy; easy on the eyes; to protect the eyes
• 情人眼里出西施(情人眼裡出西施) beauty is in the eye of the beholder
• 眼尾 outer corner of the eye
• 嗓子眼 throat
• 缺心眼 stupid; senseless; dim-witted
• 头昏眼暗(頭昏眼暗) head spinning and eyes dark; dizzy; fainting; vertigo
• 亲眼目睹(親眼目睹) to see for oneself; to see with one's own eyes
• 看走眼 to make an error of judgment; to be taken in
• 白眼河燕 white-eyed river martin (Pseudochelidon sirintarae)
• 眼过劳(眼過勞) eye strain
• 撒手闭眼(撒手閉眼) to have nothing further to do with a matter
• 长眼(長眼) thin eyes
• 眼冒金星 to see stars; dazed
• 斩眼(斬眼) to blink
• 双眼视觉(雙眼視覺) binocular vision
• 眉眼传情(眉眼傳情) to give the eye to; to make eyes at
• 尽收眼底(盡收眼底) to take in the whole scene at once; to have a panoramic view
• 放眼望去 as far as the eye can see
• 眼睛 eye
• 亲眼(親眼) with one's own eyes; personally
• 丢眉丢眼(丟眉丟眼) to wink at sb
• 芊眼 luxuiant foliage
• 大眼角 inner corner of the eye
• 眉来眼去(眉來眼去) eyes and eyebrows come and go; to make eyes; to exchange flirting glances with sb
• 眼生 unfamiliar; strange-looking

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• 卷73 奚康生 楊大眼 崔延伯 Volume 73: Xi Kangsheng, Yang Dayan, Cui Yanbo Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 39
• 卷三十七　列傳第二十五:　韓茂 皮豹子 封敕文 呂羅漢 孔伯恭 田益宗 孟表 奚康生 楊大眼 崔延伯 李叔仁 Volume 37 Biographies 25: Han Mao, Pi Baozi, Feng Chiwen, Lu Luohan, Kong Bogong, Tian Yizong, Meng Biao, Xi Kangsheng, Yang Dayan, Cui Yanbo, Li Shuren History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 35
• 卷70 劉藻 傅永 傅竪眼 李神 Volume 70: Liu Zao, Fu Yong, Fu Shuyan, Li Shen Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 30
• 卷四十五　列傳第三十三:　裴叔業 夏侯道遷 李元護 席法友 王世弼 江悅之 淳于誕 沈文秀 張讜 李苗 劉藻 傅永 傅竪眼 張烈 李叔彪 路恃慶 房亮 曹世表 潘永基 朱元旭 Volume 45 Biographies 33: Pei Shuye, Xiahou Daoqian, Li Yuanhu, Xi Fayou, Wang Shibi, Jiang Yuezhi, Chun Yudan, Shen Wenxiu, Zhang Dang, Li Miao, Liu Zao, Fu Yong, Fu Shuyan, Zhang Lie, Li Shubiao, Lu Shiqing, Fang Liang, Cao Shibiao, Pan Yongji, Zhu Yuanxu History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 22
• 卷101 氐 吐榖渾 宕昌 高昌 鄧至 蠻 獠 Volume 101: Di Peoples, Tuyuhun, Dangchang, Gaochang, Dengzhi, Man, Liao Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 12
• 第二回 Chapter 97 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 10
• 第七十三回 Chapter 73 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 10
• 第二十一回 Chapter 21 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 9
• 卷五十五　列傳第四十五 王茂 曹景宗 席闡文 夏侯詳 士瞻 蔡道恭 楊公則 鄧元起 張惠紹 馮道根 康絢 昌義之 Volume 55 Biographies 45: Wang Mao, Cao Jingzong, Xi Chanwen, Xiao Houxiang, Shi Zhan, Cai Daogong, Yan Gongze, Deng Yuanqi, Zhang Huishao, Feng Daogen, Kang Xuan, Chang Yizhi History of the Southern Dynasties 南史 — count: 9
• 第二回 Chapter 30 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 7

Collocations

• 竖眼 (豎眼) 魏將傅豎眼寇南安 — Book of Liang 梁書, 卷十七 列傳第十一 王珍國 馬仙琕 張齊 Volume 17: Wang Zhenguo; Ma Xianpin; Zhang Qi — count: 42
• 大眼 (大眼) 大眼者為大目 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷七十一 皇甫嵩朱儁列傳 Volume 71: Biographies of Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun — count: 29
• 竪眼 (竪眼) 益州刺史傅竪眼出巴北 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷8 世宗紀 Volum 8 Annals: Shizong (Emperor Xuanwu) — count: 6
• 人眼 (人眼) 四面土霧入人眼鼻 — Book of Southern Qi 南齊書, 卷十九 志第十一 五行 Volume 19 Treatises 11: Five Elements — count: 5
• 眼鼻 (眼鼻) 四面土霧入人眼鼻 — Book of Southern Qi 南齊書, 卷十九 志第十一 五行 Volume 19 Treatises 11: Five Elements — count: 5
• 眼大 (眼大) 其眼大者自稱李大目 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷八 魏書八 二公孫陶四張傳 Volume 8: Book of Wei 8 - Biographies of the two Gongsuns, Tao, and the four Zhangs — count: 4
• 眼遣 (眼遣) 梁州刺史傅竪眼遣息敬紹率眾拒擊 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷9 肅宗紀 Volume 9 Annals: Suzong (Emperor Xiaoming) — count: 4
• 眼讨 (眼討) 詔平南將軍楊大眼討之 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷8 世宗紀 Volum 8 Annals: Shizong (Emperor Xuanwu) — count: 4
• 眼患 (眼患) 眼患風 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷八十 列傳第四十 孝武十四王 Volume 80 Biographies 40: Xiaowu Shisi Wang — count: 3
• 五眼 (五眼) 健以讖言三羊五眼應符 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷一百一十二 載記第十二 苻洪 苻健 苻生 Volume 112 Records 12: Fu Hong; Fu Jian; Fu Sheng; Fu Xiong; Wang Duo — count: 3