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Translingual

Han character

(radical 109 +13, 18 strokes, cangjie input 月山人一人 (BUOMO), four-corner 68086, composition)

  1. eyelid

References

  • KangXi: page 819, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23744
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1231, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2518, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+77BC

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*raːm, *kʰreːm, *kʰlam
*qʰlaːm
*ɡr·reːmʔ, *skʰlam, *kramʔ
*ɡr·reːmʔ, *skʰraːmʔ
*kreːmʔ, *skʰlam
*ɡ·ram, *ɡ·ramʔ, *qʰram
*ɡ·ram
*ɡ·ram, *ɡ·ramʔ, *ɡ·rams, *qʰramʔ
*ɡ·ram, *ɡ·ramʔ, *qʰlam
*ɡ·ram
*ɡ·ramʔ, *ɡ·rams
*ɡ·ramʔ, *ɡ·rams
*ɡ·ramʔ, *kramʔ
*ɡ·ramʔ
*ɡ·rams
*skʰlam
*skʰlam
*skʰlam, *skʰlamʔ, *sqʰlam, *qʰramʔ
*skʰlam, *qʰramʔ
*kramʔ
*kramʔ
*ɡramʔ
*ŋramʔ, *rlɯmʔ, *kʰrɯmʔ
*ŋramʔ
*ŋramʔ, *hŋramʔ
*ŋramʔ, *ŋrams
*ŋrams
*qʰramʔ
*kams
*kams
𩏩 *qʰam

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (154)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠiᴇmX/
Pan
Wuyun
/kᵚiɛmX/
Shao
Rongfen
/kiæmX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kjiamX/
Li
Rong
/kjɛmX/
Wang
Li
/kĭɛmX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ki̯ɛmX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jiǎn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 10210
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kramʔ/

Definitions

  1. eyelid

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. eyelid

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
まぶた
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

Compound of (ma, eye, ancient combining form of modern reading me) + (futa, lid).[1][2][3][4]The futa changes to buta as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

(hiragana まぶた, romaji mabuta)

  1. (anatomy) eyelid
  2. (figuratively) memory

Idioms

Synonyms

  • (memory): 記憶 (きおく) (kioku),  (おぼ) (oboe), 物覚 (ものおぼ) (monooboe)

References

  1. 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  3. 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, ISBN 4-09-501211-0
  4. 1 2 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13143-0

Korean

Hanja

(geom) (hangeul , revised geom, McCune-Reischauer kŏm, Yale kem)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(lim, kiểm, kèm, kẻm, liễm)

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References