It is visible to the naked eye.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
肉眼
naked eye
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
naked eye
02
layman's eyes
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 肉眼 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 肉眼 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
You can see it with the naked eye.
Bacteria are so small that they cannot be seen with the naked eye.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 肉眼.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 肉眼.
Directly before
- 用肉眼3
Directly after
- 肉眼观星1
- 肉眼可见1
- 肉眼看到1
- 肉眼就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 肉眼
What does 肉眼 mean in Chinese?
肉眼 (ròuyǎn) means naked eye.
How do you pronounce 肉眼?
肉眼 is pronounced ròuyǎn.
Is 肉眼 an HSK word?
肉眼 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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