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U+77BC, 瞼
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-77BC

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Traditional
Shinjitai
(extended)
𥇥
Simplified

Han character

(Kangxi radical 109, +13, 18 strokes, cangjie input 月山人一人 (BUOMO), four-corner 68086, composition )

  1. eyelid

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 819, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23744
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1231, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2518, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+77BC

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (154)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter kjemX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠiᴇmX/
Pan
Wuyun
/kᵚiɛmX/
Shao
Rongfen
/kiæmX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kjiamX/
Li
Rong
/kjɛmX/
Wang
Li
/kĭɛmX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ki̯ɛmX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jiǎn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gim2
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 10210
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kramʔ/

Definitions

  1. eyelid

Synonyms

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai
(extended)

𥇥

Kyūjitai

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanjikyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 𥇥)

  1. eyelid

Readings

  • Go-on: けん (ken)
  • Kan-on: けん (ken)
  • Kun: まぶた (mabuta, )まなぶた (manabuta, )

Compounds

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Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
まぶた
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
目蓋
眼蓋
眼ぶた

Compound of (ma, eye, ancient combining form of modern reading me) +‎ (futa, lid).[1][2][3][4] The futa changes to buta as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Noun

(まぶた) (mabuta

  1. (anatomy) eyelid
  2. (figuratively) memory
Derived terms
Idioms
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
まなぶた
Hyōgai
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese. Appears in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE. Derived as a compound of (ma, eye, ancient combining form of modern reading me) +‎ (na, old variant of possessive particle no) +‎ (futa, lid).[1][2][3] The futa changes to buta as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Noun

(まなぶた) (manabuta

  1. (anatomy, archaic, possibly obsolete) eyelid

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. 3.0 3.1 Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  4. 4.0 4.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  5. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese (MC kjemX). Recorded as Middle Korean 검〯 (kěm) (Yale: kem) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun 눈꺼풀 (nunkkeopul geom))

  1. hanja form? of ((anatomy) eyelid)

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: lim, kiểm, kèm, kẻm, liễm

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