(jīng) - eyeball (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
jīngTraditional: 睛
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Translation
eyeball (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the eye radical 目 gives the meaning of eyeball, and 青 (qīng) supplies the sound.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 目 (eye radical) + 青 (qīng, phonetic)
Stroke order
睛
Examples
蓝。
His eyes are blue.
。
The baby's eyes are really cute.
。
Look carefully with your eyes.
。
His eyes are very bright.
龙。
The finishing touch is brilliant.
睛 (jīng) refers to the eyeball and exists only as a bound morpheme. It pairs with 眼 to form 眼睛 (yǎn jīng), the standard word for eyes.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 睛.
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