Chinese symbol for “myopia”

近视眼

jìn shì yǎn

Traditional: 近視眼

nearsightedness; myopia

The closest CC-CEDICT match for myopia is 近视眼 (jìn shì yǎn), defined as: nearsightedness; myopia.

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Characters and stroke order

近 jìn

to approach; near, close; intimate

radical 162 ⾡ · 8 strokes

视 shì

to look at, to inspect, to observe, to regard

radical 113 ⽰ · 8 strokes

眼 yǎn

eyelet, hole, opening

radical 109 ⽬ · 11 strokes

Traditional forms

視 shì

Other Chinese words for “myopia”

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
觑觑眼 (覷覷眼)	qù qù yǎn	myopia; nearsightedness

Related words

Other words that share a character with 近视眼.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
最近	zuì jìn	recently; soon
附近	fù jìn	nearby; neighboring; (in the) vicinity (of); neighborhood
接近	jiē jìn	to approach; to get close to
近期	jìn qī	near in time; in the near future
近日	jìn rì	(in) the past few days; recently
近年来 (近年來)	jìn nián lái	for the past few years
视频 (視頻)	shì pín	video
电视 (電視)	diàn shì	television; TV; 台 (tái),部 (bù)
眼睛	yǎn jing	eye; 只 (zhī),双 (shuāng)

See also: Japanese symbol for “myopia”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.