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Mythic Mandarin

眼圈 (yǎn quān): meaning and stroke order

眼圈 (yǎn quān) means rim of the eye, eye socket.

眼圈

Simplified
眼圈
Traditional
眼圈 (same form)
Pinyin
yǎn quān

Stroke order of 眼圈

眼

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

Stroke by stroke

圈

  • juān to confine; to lock up
  • juàn livestock enclosure; pen; fold; sty
  • quān circle; ring; loop (CL:個|个[ge4]); classifier for loops, orbits, laps of race etc
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 眼圈

  1. yǎn quān
    • rim of the eye
    • eye socket

Radicals of the characters

眼
Radical 目 (Kangxi radical 109) · 11 strokes · 目 on the left, 艮 on the right
圈
Radical 囗 (Kangxi radical 31) · 11 strokes · built from 囗 and 卷

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.

眼圈 in our stories

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  • 女士来取碗的时候，眼圈一下子红了：“我母亲生前最喜欢梅花。”庞师傅笑了笑，说他并不知道，只是觉得裂缝的形状像一根树枝。

    nǚshì lái qǔ wǎn de shíhou yǎnquān yíxiàzi hóng le wǒ mǔqīn shēngqián zuì xǐhuan méihuā Páng shīfu xiào le xiào shuō tā bìng bù zhīdao zhǐshì juéde lièfèng de xíngzhuàng xiàng yì gēn shùzhī

    When the woman came for the bowl, her eyes reddened at once: "My mother loved plum blossom more than anything." Master Pang smiled and said he hadn't known; he had just thought the cracks looked like a branch.

    From the story Mending the bowl HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 眼圈

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).