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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.

斜愣眼xié leng yǎn

to squint

斜眼看xié yǎn kàn

to look askance

斩眼zhǎn yǎn

to blink (literary)

明眼人míng yǎn rén

perspicacious person / sb with a discerning eye / sighted person (as opposed to blind)

映入眼帘yìng rù yǎn lián

(idiom) to greet the eye / to come into view

暗绿绣眼鸟àn lǜ xiù yǎn niǎo

(bird species of China) Swinhoe's white-eye (Zosterops simplex)

有心眼yǒu xīn yǎn

to have good sense / to be quick-witted / to be shrewd

有板有眼yǒu bǎn yǒu yǎn

orderly / methodical / rhythmical

有眼不识泰山yǒu yǎn bù shí Tài Shān

lit. to have eyes but fail to recognize Mt Tai (idiom) / fig. to fail to recognize sb important or sb's great talent / to be blind to the fact

有眼光yǒu yǎn guāng

to have good taste

有眼力见儿yǒu yǎn lì jiàn r

(dialect) alert / attentive / observant

有眼无珠yǒu yǎn wú zhū

(idiom) blind as a bat (figuratively) / unaware of who (or what) one is dealing with / to fail to recognize what sb a bit more perceptive would

有色眼镜yǒu sè yǎn jìng

(idiom) biased perspective / prejudice

望眼欲穿wàng yǎn yù chuān

to anxiously await

杏眼xìng yǎn

large, round eyes (considered beautiful)

板眼bǎn yǎn

measure in traditional Chinese music / orderliness

榜眼bǎng yǎn

candidate who came second in the Han-lin examination / see 狀元|状元[zhuàng yuán]

榫眼sǔn yǎn

mortise (slot cut into wood to receive a tenon)

横挑鼻子竖挑眼héng tiāo bí zi shù tiāo yǎn

to pick on sth incessantly (idiom) / to criticize right and left

横眉竖眼héng méi shù yǎn

to scowl fiercely / to glare

横眼héng yǎn

from the side of the eye / askance

检眼镜jiǎn yǎn jìng

ophthalmoscope / funduscope

正眼zhèng yǎn

facing directly (with one's eyes) / (to look sb) in the eyes

死心眼儿sǐ xīn yǎn r

stubborn / obstinate / having a one-track mind

没心眼méi xīn yǎn

outspoken / artless / tactless

没眼看méi yǎn kàn

(coll.) can't bear to look at it / hideous / appalling

没长眼睛méi zhǎng yǎn jing

(coll.) are you blind or something? / look where you're going

沙眼shā yǎn

trachoma

泉眼quán yǎn

mouth of a spring or fountain

淌眼泪tǎng yǎn lèi

to shed tears

泪眼婆娑lèi yǎn pó suō

tearful (idiom)

滴眼液dī yǎn yè

eye drops

浓眉大眼nóng méi dà yǎn

thick eyebrows and big eyes

火眼huǒ yǎn

pinkeye

火眼金睛huǒ yǎn jīn jīng

piercing eyes / discerning eyes

灰眼短脚鹎huī yǎn duǎn jiǎo bēi

(bird species of China) grey-eyed bulbul (Iole propinqua)

灰腹绣眼鸟huī fù xiù yǎn niǎo

(bird species of China) Indian white-eye (Zosterops palpebrosus)

灶眼zào yǎn

stovetop burner

烟熏眼yān xūn yǎn

smoky eyes look (cosmetics)

照眼zhào yǎn

glare / dazzling

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