眼
See also: 眠
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Translingual
Han character
眼 (radical 109, 目+6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 月山日女 (BUAV), four-corner 67032, composition ⿰目艮)
References
- KangXi: page 807, character 11
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23318
- Dae Jaweon: page 1222, character 26
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2488, character 4
- Unihan data for U+773C
Chinese
| simp. and trad. |
眼 | |
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Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (艮) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 艱 | *krɯːn |
| 齦 | *kʰrɯːnʔ, *kʰɯːnʔ, *ŋɯn |
| 眼 | *ŋrɯːnʔ |
| 蛝 | *ɡrɯːn |
| 限 | *ɡrɯːnʔ |
| 硍 | *ɡrɯːnʔ |
| 豤 | *kʰɯːnʔ, *kʰɯːnʔ, *kʰuːn |
| 詪 | *ɡlɯːnʔ, *kɯːnʔ, *kɯːns |
| 根 | *kɯːn |
| 跟 | *kɯːn |
| 珢 | *kɯːn, *kɯːns, *ŋrɯn |
| 艮 | *kɯːns |
| 茛 | *kɯːns |
| 墾 | *kʰɯːnʔ |
| 懇 | *kʰɯːnʔ |
| 垠 | *ŋɯːn, *ŋrɯn, *ŋɯn |
| 泿 | *ŋɯːn, *ŋrɯn |
| 痕 | *ɡɯːn |
| 拫 | *ɡɯːn |
| 鞎 | *ɡɯːn |
| 很 | *ɡɯːnʔ |
| 恨 | *ɡɯːns |
| 銀 | *ŋrɯn |
| 檭 | *ŋrɯn |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋrɯːnʔ) : semantic 目 (“eye”) + phonetic 艮 (OC *kɯːns).
Etymology 1
Derived from Etymology 2. Displaced common Sino-Tibetan 目 (OC *muɡ, “eye”) in many dialects.
Pronunciation
Definitions
眼
- (anatomy) eye (Classifier: 隻／只; 雙／双)
- ⇒ 目
- † to see; to view; to see ... in person
- † to keep sight of; to monitor; to watch
- sight; vision
- Classifier for actions of the eye.
- † to testify; to witness
- eyelet; aperture; hole; opening
- The tempo in the opera: two yellow slow board, one board three ~.二黄慢板，一板三～, 板眼: A beat of Chinese traditional drama or music. [The strongest beat of a measure is called a plate(板), and other weak beats are called an eye(眼). The one plate is a four-beat one, and the one-eyed one is a two-beat one.
- Territory in game Go(board game). 真眼, meaning 'real eye.'
- † loophole; shortcoming
- † bubbles of boiling water
- mesh
- key point; critical moment
- (go) trap
- Classifier for springs, wells and ponds.
Synonyms
Compounds
Derived terms from 眼
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Etymology 2
Unknown.
Pronunciation
Japanese
Kanji
眼
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Readings
Etymology 1
| Kanji in this term |
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| 眼 |
| まなこ Grade: 5 |
| kun’yomi |
Compound of 目 (ma, “eye”) + の (no, genitive case) + 子 (ko, nominalizing suffix). Initial ma is the unbound form of 目 (me, id).
Noun
眼 (hiragana まなこ, rōmaji manako)
- the pupil; also, the eyes in general
- c. 790: Daihannya-kyō Ongi (Ishiyamadera manuscript, page 34)
- 眼晴 [...] 倭言麻那古
- c. 790: Daihannya-kyō Ongi (Ishiyamadera manuscript, page 34)
References
- Tsukishima, Hiroshi (1978) Kojisho Ongi Shūsei 3: Daihannya-kyō Ongi, Daihannya-kyō Jishō (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Kyūko Shoin, →ISBN
- 1974, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Second Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō
- Hirayama, Tetsuo (1960) 全国アクセント辞典 (Nationwide Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: 東京堂,.
Korean
Hanja
眼 • (an) (hangeul 안, McCune–Reischauer an, Yale an)
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Vietnamese
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