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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

心眼

xīnyǎn

heart

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

heart

02

intention

03

conscience

04

consideration

05

cleverness

06

tolerance

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 心眼 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 心眼 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

个子矮的人心眼多。gè zi ǎi de rén xīn yǎn duō。

Shorter people got more tricks up their sleeves.

他这个人心眼不好。tā zhè ge rén xīn yǎn bù hǎo。

No published English translation for this sentence.

他一时被甜言蜜语蒙了心眼,结果钱都被骗光。tā yī shí bèi tián yán mì yǔ méng le xīn yǎn, jié guǒ qián dōu bèi piàn guāng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 心眼.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 心眼.

Directly before

  • 人心眼2
  • 了心眼1

Directly after

  • 心眼多1
  • 心眼不好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 心眼

What does 心眼 mean in Chinese?

心眼 (xīnyǎn) means heart.

How do you pronounce 心眼?

心眼 is pronounced xīnyǎn.

Is 心眼 an HSK word?

心眼 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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