Chinese Word of the Day

眼镜
yǎn jìng

glasses

Definitions

Chinese > English
眼镜
1. Simplified form of 眼鏡
眼鏡	yǎnjìng
1. n. glasses; eyeglasses; spectacles
戴眼鏡 - to wear glasses
摘眼鏡 - to take off one's glasses
除眼鏡geng3-2 - to take off one's glasses
English > Chinese
glasses
1. 眼镜
Components
眼	yǎn
1. (anatomy) eye
2. sight; vision
瞪了他一眼 - to give him a stare
一眼睇嗮 - to be able to see everything in a glance
3. eyelet; aperture; hole; opening
4. tempo in the opera
一板三眼 - one strong beat and three weak beats in the four-beat rhythm
5. territory in game Go (board game).
6. mesh
7. key point; critical moment
8. (Go) trap
9. (Cantonese, mahjong) two identical tiles which are an essential part of a legal winning hand
10. (Cantonese)
镜
1. Simplified form of 鏡
鏡	jìng
1. (now, in compounds or dialectal) mirror; reflecting glass
鏡子zi - mirror
銅鏡 - bronze mirror
穿衣鏡 - dressing mirror
2. (physics, in compounds) lens; -scope
稜鏡 - prism
凸透鏡 - convex lens
3. (in compounds) spectacles; glasses
太陽鏡 - sunglasses
護目鏡 - goggles
4. (Cantonese) Short for 鏡頭, camera lens
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