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

• 放眼望去 as far as the eye can see
• 眼纹噪鹛(眼紋噪鶥) spotted laughing thrush (Garrulax ocellatus)
• 展眼 to blink; to wink ; to survey; to look around
• 老眼昏花 blurred vision of an old person
• 偷眼 to take a furtive look at
• 闪眼(閃眼) to dazzle; to blink at; to open one's eyes wide
• 横眉竖眼(橫眉豎眼) to scowl fiercely; to glare
• 干瞪眼(乾瞪眼) to watch helplessly
• 满眼(滿眼) filling the eyes; to get an eyeful
• 孔眼 hole
• 没心眼(沒心眼) outspoken; artless; tactless
• 瞎眼 to be blind
• 下眼睑(下眼瞼) lower eyelid
• 眼熟 familiar-looking; to seem familiar
• 眼热(眼熱) to covet; envious
• 丹凤眼(丹鳳眼) red phoenix eyes (eyes whose outer corners incline upwards)
• 眼泪横流(眼淚橫流) to be overflowing with tears
• 眼看 soon ; to watch helplessly
• 白眼河燕 white-eyed river martin (Pseudochelidon sirintarae)
• 凤眼(鳳眼) almond-shaped eyes
• 觑觑眼(覷覷眼) myopia; nearsightedness; shortsightedness
• 节骨眼(節骨眼) critical junction
• 碧眼童颜(碧眼童顏) bright eyes and fresh complexion
• 正眼 facing directly (with one's eyes); (to look sb) in the eyes
• 眼睛 eye
• 吹胡子瞪眼(吹鬍子瞪眼) to get angry; to fume
• 芊眼 luxuiant foliage
• 斜眼 to look askance; cross or wall-eyed
• 抠字眼儿(摳字眼兒) to be fastidious about phrasing
• 对眼(對眼) to squint; to one's liking
• 眼不见，心不烦(眼不見，心不煩) what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over
• 开眼界(開眼界) broaden, expand one's horizons
• 不起眼 unremarkable; nothing out of the ordinary
• 重眼皮儿(重眼皮兒) double eyelid; epicanthal fold of upper eyelid (characteristic of Asian people)
• 杏眼 large, round eyes
• 丢眉弄眼(丟眉弄眼) to throw a glance at; to tempt or provoke with a facial expression
• 好汉不吃眼前亏(好漢不吃眼前虧) a wise man knows better than to fight when the odds are against him
• 小心眼儿(小心眼兒) small-minded; petty; narrow-minded
• 老视眼(老視眼) presbyopia
• 眼线笔(眼線筆) eyeliner (cosmetics)
• 眼见得(眼見得) obviously; clearly
• 两眼(兩眼) a pair of eyes
• 独眼龙(獨眼龍) one-eyed person
• 眼电图(眼電圖) electrooculograph (EOG)
• 屁股眼 anus
• 天低吴楚，眼空无物(天低吳楚，眼空無物) the sky hangs low over the Yangtze, empty as far as the eye can see
• 假眼 artificial eye; glass eye
• 窍眼(竅眼) intelligence
• 碧眼 blue eyes
• 眼前 now; present ; in front of one's eyes

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钻眼

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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
• 第七十三回 Chapter 73 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 10
• 第二回 Chapter 97 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 10
• 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
• 第二十一回 Chapter 21 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 9
• 第二回 Chapter 63 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 7

Collocations

• 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: 66
• 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
• 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
• 眼分 (眼分) 若慮可寄於眼分 — Book of Liang 梁書, 卷四十八 列傳第四十二 儒林 Volume 48: Confucian Scholars — count: 3
• 眼龟 (眼龜) 四眼龜見會稽 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷二十八 志第十八 符瑞中 Volume 28 Treatises 18: Auspicious Signs 2 — count: 3