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Frequency data from Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare.

翻白眼fān bái yǎn

to roll one's eyes

老眼昏花lǎo yǎn hūn huā

blurred vision of an old person (idiom)

老花眼lǎo huā yǎn

presbyopia

老视眼lǎo shì yǎn

presbyopia

耳朵眼儿ěr duo yǎn r

earhole / ear piercing hole / earring hole

耳听为虚,眼见为实ěr tīng wéi xū , yǎn jiàn wéi shí

(idiom) what one hears may be unreliable, but what one sees is true / seeing is believing

肉眼凡胎ròu yǎn fán tāi

ignoramus (idiom)

肉眼观察ròu yǎn guān chá

observation by naked eye

肋眼lèi yǎn

rib-eye steak

芽眼yá yǎn

(botany) undeveloped bud / eye

着眼点zhuó yǎn diǎn

place of interest / a place one has one's eye on

蒙眼méng yǎn

to have one's eyes covered / to be blindfolded

虫眼chóng yǎn

hole or bite mark in a plant made by an insect

裸眼luǒ yǎn

naked eye

复眼fù yǎn

compound eye

见钱眼开jiàn qián yǎn kāi

to open one's eyes wide at the sight of profit (idiom) / thinking of nothing but personal gain / money-grubbing

觑着眼qù zhe yǎn

to narrow one's eyes and gaze at something with great attention

觑觑眼qù qù yǎn

myopia / nearsightedness / shortsightedness

词眼cí yǎn

key word

猫眼māo yǎn

peephole (in a door) / (mineralogy) chrysoberyl

贼眉鼠眼zéi méi shǔ yǎn

shifty-eyed / crafty-looking (idiom)

贼眼zéi yǎn

shifty gaze / furtive glance

走眼zǒu yǎn

a mistake / an oversight / an error of judgment

起眼qǐ yǎn

to catch one's eye (usu. used in the negative)

跌眼镜diē yǎn jìng

to be taken aback

跌破眼镜diē pò yǎn jìng

(fig.) to be astounded

转眼之间zhuǎn yǎn zhī jiān

(idiom) in the wink of an eye / in a flash

转眼即逝zhuǎn yǎn jí shì

to pass in an instant / over in the twinkling of an eye

辣眼睛là yǎn jing

(neologism c. 2016) (slang) unpleasant to look at / hard on the eyes

近视眼jìn shì yǎn

nearsightedness / myopia

递眼色dì yǎn sè

to give sb a meaningful look

配眼镜pèi yǎn jìng

to have a pair of prescription glasses made

重眼皮chóng yǎn pí

double eyelid / epicanthal fold of upper eyelid (characteristic of Asian people)

重眼皮儿chóng yǎn pí r

double eyelid / epicanthal fold of upper eyelid (characteristic of Asian people)

金眼鹛雀jīn yǎn méi què

(bird species of China) yellow-eyed babbler (Chrysomma sinense)

金发碧眼jīn fà bì yǎn

fair-haired and blue-eyed / blonde / of Western appearance

扣眼kòu yǎn

buttonhole

钻眼zuān yǎn

to drill a hole / drilling

长眼zhǎng yǎn

to have eyes / (fig.) to look where one is going / to watch one's step / to be cautious

长点心眼zhǎng diǎn xīn yǎn

to watch out / to keep one's wits about one

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