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Word and Radical Components of 眼镜

The Chinese word 眼镜 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.


Component Pinyin Meanings
眼镜 1. Simplified form of 眼鏡

眼镜 ⇨ 眼 + 镜
Component Pinyin Meanings
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)
11. (Cantonese)
镜 1. Simplified form of 鏡

眼 ⇨ 目 + 艮
Component Pinyin Meanings
目 mù 1. (literary or Min) eye
     耳目 (ěrmù) - ears and eyes; spies
     目睭 (ba̍k-chiu) - eye, MN
2. item; entry
     賬目 (zhàngmù) - entry
3. list; catalogue; table of contents
     目錄 (mùlù) - catalogue
4. target; goal
     目標 (mùbiāo) - target
     目的dì (mùdì) - target, goal
5. (taxonomy) order
6. (classical) to call; to address (of people's names and titles)
     Synonyms: 稱呼
艮 gèn 1. stopping
gěn 2. one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing mountains. (☶)
3. (dialectal) blunt; straightforward
4. (dialectal) tough, chewy

镜 ⇨ 钅 + 竟
Component Pinyin Meanings
钅 1. gold
2. Simplified form of 釒
竟 jìng 1. to finish; to end (literary)
2. finally; after all; at last (literary)
3. unexpectedly; to one's surprise; surprisingly
4. whole; entire

竟 ⇨ 音 + 儿
Component Pinyin Meanings
音 yīn 1. sound; voice; tone
     蘿莉-音 - loli voice
2. news; tidings
3. (music) pitch; note
4. (phonetics) pronunciation; syllable
     京音 - Beijing pronunciation
     潮音 - Teochew pronunciation
     中古音 - Middle Chinese pronunciation
     方音 - dialectal pronunciation
     陽江 音 - Yangjiang pronunciation
儿 1. legs
2. Simplified form of 兒
3. usage. May be used to specially write erhua (or the rhotic sound) in traditional Chinese, in contrast with child.
4. Variant of 人