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眼泪 (yǎn lèi): meaning and stroke order

眼泪 (yǎn lèi) means tear; teardrop, CL:滴.

眼泪

Simplified
眼泪
Traditional
眼淚
Pinyin
yǎn lèi

Stroke order of 眼泪

眼

  • yǎn eye (CL:隻|只[zhi1],雙|双[shuang1]); (often used with 一[yi1]) a look; a glance
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

泪

  • lèi (bound form) tears; teardrops
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 淚

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 眼泪

  1. yǎn lèi Traditional 眼淚
    • tear; teardrop
    • CL:滴[di1]

Radicals of the characters

眼
Radical 目 (Kangxi radical 109) · 11 strokes · 目 on the left, 艮 on the right
泪
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 8 strokes · 氵 on the left, 目 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

眼泪 in our stories

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  • “小偷一定是从窗户爬进来的！”她一边说，一边用手擦着眼泪。

    xiǎotōu yídìng shì cóng chuānghu pá jìnlai de tā yìbiān shuō yìbiān yòng shǒu cā zhe yǎnlèi

    "The thief must have climbed in through the window!" she said, wiping away her tears.

    From the story The dry floor HSK 6

  • 悟空跪在地上，向师父磕了三个头，眼泪在眼睛里打转，却一句辩解的话都没说。

    Wùkōng guì zài dì shàng xiàng shīfu kē le sān gè tóu yǎnlèi zài yǎnjing lǐ dǎzhuàn què yí jù biànjiě de huà dōu méi shuō

    Wukong knelt, kowtowed three times to his master with tears welling in his eyes, and said not a single word in his own defence.

    From the story Monkey strikes the White Bone Demon three times HSK 6

  • 重耳喝完汤，知道了真相，感动得流下了眼泪：“将来我若回国，一定报答你。”

    Chóng'ěr hē wán tāng zhīdao le zhēnxiàng gǎndòng de liú xià le yǎnlèi jiānglái wǒ ruò huíguó yídìng bàodá nǐ

    When Chong'er finished the soup and learned the truth, he wept: "If I ever return home, I will surely repay you."

    From the story Cold Food Day and Qingming HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 眼泪

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).