Chinese

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eye; item; section
eye; item; section; list; catalogue; table of contents; (taxonomy) order; goal; name; title
 
feather screen; to screen; to shade
trad. (目翳)
simp. #(目翳)
alternative forms 目瞖

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Noun

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目翳

  1. (Southern Min, medicine) cataract

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Japanese

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Kanji in this term
Grade: 1 Hyōgai
jukujikun

Etymology

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From Old Japanese. Derivation unknown. Found in the Wamyō Ruijushō kanji dictionary of 938.[1][2]

The spelling appears to be an example of jukujikun, using the Chinese characters (, eye) + (, shade; screen; cataract).

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Noun

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目翳() (hi

  1. (archaic, possibly obsolete) cataracts: cloudy aberrations in the eye, ultimately causing blindness

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References

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  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN