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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

第一眼

dìyīyǎn

at first glance

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

at first glance

02

at first sight

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 第一眼 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 第一眼 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

她第一眼就吸引了我。tā dì yī yǎn jiù xī yǐn le wǒ。

She attracted me at first sight.

第一眼看起来,那个问题似乎很容易。dì yī yǎn kàn qǐ lái, nà ge wèn tí sì hū hěn róng yì。

At first glance, the question seemed easy.

我第一眼就认出了她。wǒ dì yī yǎn jiù rèn chū le tā。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 第一眼.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 第一眼.

Directly before

  • 我第一眼2
  • 她第一眼1

Directly after

  • 第一眼就3
  • 第一眼看起来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 第一眼

What does 第一眼 mean in Chinese?

第一眼 (dìyīyǎn) means at first glance.

How do you pronounce 第一眼?

第一眼 is pronounced dìyīyǎn.

Is 第一眼 an HSK word?

第一眼 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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