睫

Translingual

Han character

睫 (radical 109 目+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月山十中人 (BUJLO), four-corner 6508₁)

1. eyelashes

References

• KangXi: page 811, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23469
• Dae Jaweon: page 1226, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2495, character 9
• Unihan data for U+776B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

睫 (Yale jit6)

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Japanese

Etymology

Literally "hair of eye". Compound of ma (“eye”), tsu (“genitive case”), and ke (“hair”). Final -ke voices to -ge due to rendaku.

Noun

睫 (hiragana まつげ, romaji matsuge)

1. eyelashes
   • c. 790: Daihannya-kyō Ongi (Ishiyamadera manuscript, page 34)

     眼睫 [...] 倭言麻都竒

Kanji

睫

Readings

• On: しょう (shō)
• Kun: まつげ (matsuge)

References

• 1978, Hiroshi Tsukishima, Kojisho Ongi Shūsei 3: Daihannya-kyō Ongi, Daihannya-kyō Jishō (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Kyūko Shoin, ISBN 4-7629-3090-3:

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Korean

Hanja

睫 (hangeul 첩, revised cheop, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏp, Yale chep)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

睫 (pinyin jié (jie2), shè (she4), Wade-Giles chieh², she⁴)

Compounds

• 睫毛 (jié máo)