He glanced at his watch.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
一眼
a glance
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
a glance
02
a quick look
03
a glimpse
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 一眼 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 一眼 appears in 26 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
He took a quick look at the magazine.
She gave me a strange look.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 一眼.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 一眼.
Directly before
- 了一眼9
- 看一眼5
- 我一眼4
- 她一眼3
- 他一眼1
Directly after
- 一眼就3
- 一眼报纸2
- 一眼那本1
- 一眼他1
- 一眼杂志1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 一眼
What does 一眼 mean in Chinese?
一眼 (yīyǎn) means a glance.
How do you pronounce 一眼?
一眼 is pronounced yīyǎn.
Is 一眼 an HSK word?
一眼 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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