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Kanji Detail for 眼 - "eye, vision, discernment"

眼

  • Meaning

    眼 means "eye, vision, discernment."

    1. Eye - The organ of sight; the visual sense.

    2. Vision - The ability to see; insight.

    3. Discernment - The ability to judge well; perception.

    4. Hole - An opening; a gap.

    5. Key point - An essential element; the crux.

  • Words using 眼

    • 眼鏡 メガネ Listen glasses; eyeglasses; spectacles
    • 主眼 しゅがん Listen main purpose; chief aim; focus
    • 眼科 がんか Listen ophthalmology
    • 肉眼 にくがん Listen naked eye; the physical eye
    • 老眼 ろうがん Listen presbyopia; age-related longsightedness; farsightedness
    • 近眼 きんがん Listen nearsightedness; shortsightedness; myopia
    • 眼差し まなざし Listen (a) look; gaze

  • Four-character idioms with 眼

    • 媚眼秋波 びがんしゅうは Listen casting a coquettish glance (at a man)
    • 眼光紙背 がんこうしはい Listen reading between the lines
    • 眼高手低 がんこうしゅてい Listen able to criticize but not to create (criticise)
    • 着眼大局 ちゃくがんたいきょく Listen having an eye to the big picture; being aware of the general situation
    • 碧眼紅毛 へきがんこうもう Listen blue eyes and red hair; Westerner
    • 紅毛碧眼 こうもうへきがん Listen red-haired and blue-eyed (person); a Westerner

  • Tattoo check: 眼

    • Verified meaning: eye, vision, discernment
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read まなこ, めさき)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 眼

    Given names 眼(まなこ)Listen

    Surnames 眼(めさき)Listen

  • Compare with other kanji that mean the same thing:

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    eyeball

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    eye; eyelet, hole, opening

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    eye (CL:隻|只[zhi1],雙|双[shuang1]); (often used with 一[yi1]) a look; a glance; small hole; (bound form) salient point; classifier for wells, cave-dwellings etc

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    eyelet, hole, opening

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    The eye. | Holes are called 眼. Such as 泉眼 (spring hole), 井眼 (well opening). | Key points. Such as in music, the beats are called 板眼. In sentence structure, the key words are called 字眼.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    gan(ガン) ガン

    gen(ゲン) ゲン

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    manako(まなこ) まなこ

    me(め) め

  • Strokes

    tip

    11 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    目 罒 (me・mehen)

  • Related Keywords

    eye vision discernment essential gaze hole insight key point perception glance iris look observe ocular opening optical perspective pupil see stare view visual

Sentences including 眼

  • He has no eye for beautiful.

  • I saw it with my own eyes.

  • I don't exist to you.

  • He put on his glasses and began to read.

  • Are these the glasses you are looking for?

  • How much were the glasses?

  • He has an eye for the beautiful.

  • She has an eye for the beautiful.

  • What did you do with my glasses?

  • She has an eye for the beautiful.

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