kuàng
noun #36,489

Meanings

  1. 1 eye socket
  2. 2 rim of the eye

Examples

Tā rè lèi yíng kuàng.
Her eyes brimmed with hot tears.
Yǎnlèi duó kuàng ér chū.
Tears burst from her eyes.

Tips

usage
is a bound morpheme — you almost never see it standalone. It appears in fixed phrases, especially 热泪盈眶 (rè lèi yíng kuàng, 'hot tears fill the eyes') and 夺眶而出 (duó kuàng ér chū, 'to burst from the eyes'), both describing intense emotion.
memory
The radical (mù, 'eye') on the left tells you it's eye-related; the right side (kuāng) supplies the sound. Eye + frame = the bony rim that frames the eye.

Stroke Order

kuàng