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眉

眉

Translingual

Han character

眉 (radical 109 目+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 日竹月山 (AHBU), four-corner 77267, composition ⿸𠃜目)

References

  • KangXi: page 803, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23190
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1218, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2478, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+7709

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 眉

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 眉
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (眉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
眉 *mril
楣 *mril
嵋 *bril
湄 *mril
鶥 *mril
瑂 *mril
郿 *mril, *mrils
葿 *mril
媚 *mrils
篃 *mrils
蝞 *mrills
煝 *mrils

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 眉
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 脂 (17)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 武悲切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mˠiɪ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mᵚi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /miɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /mji/
Li
Rong		 /mji/
Wang
Li		 /mi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 mí
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 眉
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 méi
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mij ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mr[ə][r]/
English eyebrow

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 眉
Reading # 1/1
No. 8938
Phonetic
component		 眉
Rime
group		 脂
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 眉
Old
Chinese		 /*mril/

Definitions

眉

  1. eyebrow
  2. upper margin of book

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 眉毛 (“eyebrow”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 眉
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 眉毛
Mandarin Beijing 眉毛
Taiwan 眉毛
Tianjin 眉毛
Jinan 眉毛、眼眉
Xi'an 眉毛、眼眉、眉
Wuhan 眉毛
Chengdu 眉毛
Yangzhou 眉毛
Hefei 眉毛
Cantonese Guangzhou 眼眉、眼眉毛、眉毛
Hong Kong 眼眉、眼眉毛、眉毛
Taishan 眉毛
Yangjiang 眼眉
Gan Nanchang 眉毛
Hakka Meixian 目眉毛
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 目眉毛
Liudui (S. Sixian) 目眉毛
Hsinchu (Hailu) 目眉毛
Dongshi (Dabu) 目眉毛
Zhuolan (Raoping) 目眉毛
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 目眉
Jin Taiyuan 眉毛
Min Bei Jian'ou 眉毛
Min Dong Fuzhou 眉毛
Min Nan Quanzhou 目眉、目眉毛
Xiamen 目眉、目眉毛
Zhangzhou 目眉、目毛、目眉毛
Taipei 目眉
Malaysia 目眉
Chaozhou 目眉
Wu Suzhou 眉毛
Xiang Changsha 眉毛
Shuangfeng 眉毛

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

眉

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. eyebrow

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
眉
まゆ
Grade: S
kun'yomi

/majo/ → /maju/

From Old Japanese. Appears in the Man'yōshū poetry anthology of the mid-700s with the reading mayo. The ma element is very likely 目 ‎(ma, “eye”, ancient combining form of modern me reading), but the derivation of the yo element is unclear.

Pronunciation

Noun

眉 ‎(hiragana まゆ, romaji mayu)

  1. eyebrow
Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  • 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan

Korean

Hanja in this term
眉

Hanja

眉 • ‎(mi) (hangeul 미, revised mi, McCune-Reischauer mi, Yale mi)

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Vietnamese

Hán tự in this word
眉

Han character

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