- 目(eye)RADICAL
- 艮(hard; stop)PHONO-SEMANTIC
Two eyes looking straight ahead, stubborn and resolute like the character for "firm."
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眼穿肠断
眼穿肠断
waiting anxiously (idiom)
1 meaning
MEANING
MEANING
- 壹形adjective
waiting anxiously (idiom)
- 。
She waited for him with her heart torn to pieces.
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解字
CHARACTER ANALYSIS解字
CHARACTER ANALYSIS- 穴(hole; gap)RADICAL
- 牙(tooth)PHONO-SEMANTIC
Use your teeth to bite through a cave or hole – that's how to remember the character for piercing through.
解字
CHARACTER ANALYSIS- 米(grain; thread (symbolizing something cut))ASSOCIATIVE
- 斤(axe; chopping tool)PHONO-SEMANTIC
Using an axe to chop and sever threads — the image of breaking or cutting off.
⿰(left-right)
⺼
昜
眼穿肠断
Traditional眼穿腸斷
waiting anxiously (idiom)
1 meaning
MEANING
MEANING
- 壹形adjective
waiting anxiously (idiom)
- 。
She waited for him with her heart torn to pieces.
STROKE ORDER
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⿰(left-right)
⺼
昜
解字
CHARACTER ANALYSIS- 目(eye)RADICAL
- 艮(hard; stop)PHONO-SEMANTIC
Two eyes looking straight ahead, stubborn and resolute like the character for "firm."
解字
CHARACTER ANALYSIS- 穴(hole; gap)RADICAL
- 牙(tooth)PHONO-SEMANTIC
Use your teeth to bite through a cave or hole – that's how to remember the character for piercing through.
解字
CHARACTER ANALYSIS- 米(grain; thread (symbolizing something cut))ASSOCIATIVE
- 斤(axe; chopping tool)PHONO-SEMANTIC
Using an axe to chop and sever threads — the image of breaking or cutting off.
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