台风眼

颱風眼

táifēngyǎn

noun

Meanings

1 eye of a typhoon
2 calm center of a storm of activity

Characters

platform (here: part of 台风)

Examples

HSK 5

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.

HSK 7-9

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