台风眼

颱風眼

táifēngyǎn

noun

Meanings

1 eye of a typhoon
2 (figurative) calm center of a storm of activity

Characters

platform (here: part of 台风)

Examples

我们现在正处在台风眼里，所以风停了。

Wǒmen xiànzài zhèng chǔ zài táifēngyǎn lǐ, suǒyǐ fēng tíng le.

We're right in the eye of the typhoon, that's why the wind has stopped.

他是这场风波的台风眼。

Tā shì zhè chǎng fēngbō de táifēngyǎn.

He's at the eye of the whole controversy.

Tips

memory

Literal meaning maps directly: 台风 (typhoon) + 眼 (eye). Like English 'eye of the storm,' Chinese uses the same metaphor for being in a deceptively calm center surrounded by chaos.

Stroke Order

台 tái

风 fēng

眼 yǎn