Chinese Idioms - Chengyu

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    to see through something at first glance

    yī
    一
    yǎn
    眼
    kàn
    看
    chuān
    穿
    一眼看穿
    yī yǎn kàn chuān

    Word by word translation of this Chinese idiom

    一
    yī
    one / 1 / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire / whole / all / throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
    眼
    yǎn
    eye / small hole / crux (of a matter) / classifier for big hollow things (wells, stoves, pots etc) / CL:隻|只[zhī],雙|双[shuāng]
    看
    kān
    to look after / to take care of / to watch / to guard
    kàn
    to see / to look at / to read / to watch / to visit / to call on / to consider / to regard as / to look after / to treat (an illness) / to depend on / to feel (that) / Watch out! (for a danger) / (after verb) to give it a try
    穿
    chuān
    to bore through / to pierce / to perforate / to penetrate / to pass through / to dress / to wear / to put on / to thread
    Data is based on CC-CEDICT. See the full data in action here MDBG Chinese-English dictionary.

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