Glasses in Chinese (Mandarin): 眼镜 (yǎnjìng)
眼镜
yǎnjìng
glasses
- Simplified
- 眼镜
- Traditional
- 眼鏡
- Pinyin
- yǎnjìng
- Typed as
- yanjing
Use it in a sentence
奶奶戴眼镜看书。
奶奶戴眼鏡看書。
Grandma wears glasses to read.
The characters in 眼镜
眼
Eye. 目 (eye) is on the left.
11 strokes
镜 / 鏡
Mirror, lens. 钅 (metal) is on the left, from the days of bronze mirrors.
16 strokes
眼镜 are "eye lenses". Sunglasses are 太阳镜 (tàiyángjìng), and glasses are put on with 戴 (dài).
More examples with 眼镜
爷爷戴着眼镜。
爺爺戴著眼鏡。
Yéye dàizhe yǎnjìng.
Grandpa wears glasses.
我的眼镜不见了。
我的眼鏡不見了。
Wǒ de yǎnjìng bú jiàn le.
My glasses are missing.
How to write 眼镜 in Chinese
Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.
眼 11 strokes
镜 16 strokes
In Traditional characters:
鏡 19 strokes
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