created sense approved 眼巴巴 · yǎnbābā · eagerly — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
眼巴巴
yǎnbābā
eagerly
waiting or looking at something with great eagerness or anxiety; impatient
眼 (literal) → 眼 · yǎn · eye 巴巴 (reduplication) → 巴 · bā · to long for
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition
created sense approved 眼巴巴 · yǎnbābā · helplessly — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
眼巴巴
yǎnbābā
helplessly
watching something happen while being unable to do anything about it; helpless or powerless
眼 (literal) → 眼 · yǎn · eye 巴巴 (reduplication) → 巴 · ba · [suffix]
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition