瞇

瞇 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+10, 15 strokes, cangjie input 月山卜火木 (BUYFD), four-corner 6903₉, composition ⿰目迷)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 813, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23556
• Dae Jaweon: page 1227, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2503, character 11
• Unihan data for U+7787

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 目 + phonetic 迷 (OC *miː).

瞇

1. to squint; to narrow one's eyes

   瞇著眼睛看／眯着眼睛看  ―  mī zhe yǎnjīng kàn  ―  to squint one's eyes to look

   瞇埋眼瞓覺／眯埋眼𰥛觉   ―  mei¹ maai⁴ ngaan⁵ fan³ gaau³   ―  to close one's eyes to sleep

2. (dialectal, colloquial) to take a nap; to doze off

   我想瞇一會兒。
   我想眯一会儿。

   Wǒ xiǎng mī yìhúir.

   I want to take a nap for a while.

   伊予我瞇一下，我才陪伊出去。
   伊予我眯一下，我才陪伊出去。

   I hō͘ góa bî chi̍t-ē, góa chiah pôe i chhut-khì.

   He let me take a nap for a while, then I accompanied him going out.

3. (Zhangzhou Hokkien) to be sound asleep; to be fast asleep
4. (Hokkien) to look at someone indirectly
5. (Xiamen, Quanzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) to look furtively; to look stealthily
6. (Shiqi Cantonese, Zhongshan Min) to sleep

   Alternative form: 寐

7. (Teochew) to close one's eyes

   Alternative forms: 𥅽, 瞑

   • 《古板新造蘇六娘金釵羅帕記全歌》

     賤妾死了目不𥅽
     贱妾死了目不𥅽

     zuan⁷ ciêb⁴ si² liou³ mag⁸ bug⁴ mi¹

     After I die my eyes will not remain closed

   • 《潮汕魚名歌》 /

     蚶蠔店𥅽難尋覓
     蚶蚝店𥅽难寻觅

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   • 1883, Adele Marion Fielde, “瞑”, in A Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of the Swatow Dialect, Arranged According to Syllables and Tones, Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, page 377:

     伊死了目合不瞑。

     i¹ si² liou² mag⁸ hab⁸ m⁷ mi¹.

     After he was dead, his eyes would not remain closed.

• (to squint): (Hokkien) 瞇目／眯目
• (to look at someone indirectly, to look furtively): (Hokkien) 猸
• (to sleep):

• “瞇”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

瞇: Hán Nôm readings: mị

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