近 视

jìnshì

adjectiveHSK 6

“Myopic” in Chinese is 近视 (jìnshì).

Meaning

myopic; nearsighted
(fig.) shortsighted

Example

李梅有近视眼，但她很少戴眼镜。

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

jìnHSK 27 strokesnear shìHSK 18 strokes(literary, or bound form) to look at

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