眼
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Translingual [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 目 (“eye”) + phonetic 艮 – an ability or an action of the eye.
Han character [edit]
眼 (radical 109 目+6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 月山日女 (BUAV), four-corner 67032)
References [edit]
- 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
Cantonese [edit]
Hanzi [edit]
眼 (Yale ngaan5)
Japanese [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Compound of ma (“eye”) + no (“genitive case”) + ko (“suffix”). Initial ma is the unbound form of me (“id”).
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: [manako]
Noun [edit]
眼 (hiragana まなこ, romaji 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)
Kanji [edit]
Readings [edit]
References [edit]
- 1978, Hiroshi Tsukishima, Kojisho Ongi Shūsei 3: Daihannya-kyō Ongi, Daihannya-kyō Jishō (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Kyūko Shoin, ISBN 4-7629-3090-3:
Korean [edit]
Hanja [edit]
眼 (hangeul 안, revised an, McCune-Reischauer an, Yale an)
Mandarin [edit]
Hanzi [edit]
眼 (pinyin yǎn (yan3), Wade-Giles yen3)