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Kanji Detail for 瞑 - "close eyes, dim, dazzle"
瞑
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Meaning
瞑 means "close eyes, dim, dazzle."
Close eyes - To shut one's eyes.
Dim - Not clearly visible.
Dazzle - For vision to blur.
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Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
sleep; dark; close eyes
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
close eyes
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
to close (the eyes)
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
to close one's eyes
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Closing eyes. Anciently interchangeable with the character 眠. Later used specifically for the dead closing their eyes. Such as saying 死不瞑目 (dying with eyes unclosed) and such. | 瞑眩. Becoming delirious due to illness.
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Related Keywords
Sentences including 瞑
メアリーは目を瞑った。
Mary closed her eyes.
Flies and mosquitoes interfered with his meditation.
He used to meditate in the morning.
He painted an image he had during meditation last night.
A sudden loud noise broke in on my meditation.
Sentences from Japanese classical masterpieces
More kanji with the radical 目 罒 (me・mehen)
- 目 eye, item, appearance
- 盲 blind, ignorant
- 直 straight, honest, to fix
- 冒 to defy
- 相 mutual, appearance
- 盾 shield
- 省 ministry, to save
- 眉 eyebrow
- 看 to watch, to look, to care
- 県 prefecture
- 眞 true, truth
- 真 true, truth, pure
- 眠 to sleep, to die
- 眸 pupil, eye
- 眺 to gaze, view, to look out
- 眼 eye, vision, discernment
- 睡 sleep, slumber, drowsy
- 督 supervise, urge
- 睦 harmonious, to be intimate
- 瞥 glance
- 瞭 clear, obvious
- 瞳 pupil
- 瞬 to blink, an instant