觸目驚心 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 触目惊心 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. chùmùjīngxīn ㄔㄨˋ ㄇㄨˋ ㄐㄧㄥ ㄒㄧㄣ lit. shocks the eye, astonishes the heart (idiom) shocking horrible to see a ghastly sight Character by character 觸(chù)touch 目(mù)eye 驚(jīng)startle 心(xīn)heart A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT