眼帘

眼簾
yǎnlián
noun #37,198

Meanings

  1. 1 eyes
  2. 2 field of vision
  3. 3 eyelid

Examples

HSK 6
Tā de xiàoróng lìkè jìnrù le wǒ de yǎnlián.
Her smile immediately came into my view.
HSK 7-9
Tuīkāi chuānghù, yí piàn lǜsè yìngrù yǎnlián.
When he pushed open the window, a sea of green came into view.

Tips

usage
眼帘 is mostly literary and almost always appears in the fixed pattern 映入眼帘 ('to be reflected into one's eyes') or 进入眼帘 - both meaning 'to come into view / catch one's eye'. In everyday speech, use 看到 (to see) or 注意到 (to notice) instead.
memory
by itself means 'curtain' (e.g. 窗帘 window curtain), so 眼帘 reads literally as 'eye-curtain' - the eyelid pictured as a small drape over the eye. The whole compound then stretches metaphorically to mean 'what falls within the eyes' = field of vision.

Stroke Order

yǎn
lián