眉

眉 U+7709, 眉
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7709
← 眈
[U+7708] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 眊 →
[U+770A]

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
alt. forms 屓

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 眉
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
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

Note:
  • bâi - vernacular;
  • bî - literary.
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 a book

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 眉毛 (“eyebrow”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 眉
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 眉毛
Mandarin Beijing 眉毛、眼眉
Taiwan 眉毛
Tianjin 眼眉
Harbin 眉毛、眼眉
Jinan 眉、眉毛、眼眉
Muping 眼眉
Luoyang 眉毛
Jiedian 眉
Ronghe 眉
Xi'an 眉毛、眉、眼眉
Xining 眉毛
Xuzhou 眉毛
Yinchuan 眉毛
Lanzhou 眉毛
Ürümqi 眉毛
Wuhan 眉毛
Chengdu 眉毛
Guiyang 眉毛
Guilin 眉毛
Liuzhou 眼眉毛、眉毛
Yangzhou 眉毛
Nanjing 眉毛
Hefei 眉毛
Cantonese Guangzhou 眼眉、眼眉毛
Hong Kong 眼眉、眼眉毛
Dongguan 眼眉、眼眉毛
Hong Kong (Weitou) 眼眉毛
Taishan 眉毛
Yangjiang 眼眉
Xinyi 眼眉
Nanning 眼眉毛
Wuzhou 眼眉毛
Yulin 眉毛、眼眉毛
Hepu 眼眉毛
Kuala Lumpur 眼眉
Gan Nanchang 眉毛
Lichuan 眉毛
Pingxiang 眉毛
Hakka Meixian 目眉毛
Luchuan 眉毛
Changting 目眉毛、眉毛
Wuping 目眉毛
Ninghua 眼眉
Yudu 眉毛、眉毛牯
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
Hong Kong 眼眉毛
Sabah 目眉毛
Senai 眼眉
Singkawang 目眉毛
Huizhou Jixi 眉毛
Jin Taiyuan 眉毛
Xinzhou 眉毛
Min Bei Jian'ou 眉毛
Min Dong Fuzhou 眉毛
Fuqing 眉毛
Matsu 眉毛
Min Nan Xiamen 目眉、目眉毛、目睭毛
Quanzhou 目眉、目眉毛
Zhangzhou 目眉、目眉毛、目毛
Taipei 目眉
Kaohsiung 目眉
Tainan 目眉
Taichung 目眉
Wuqi 目眉
Hsinchu 目眉
Taitung 目眉
Lukang 目眉
Yilan 目眉
Magong 目眉
Penang 目眉
Singapore 目眉
Philippines (Manila) 目眉
Pingnan 眉毛
Chaozhou 目眉
Shantou 目眉
Haifeng 眉
Johor Bahru 目眉
Haikou 目眉、眉毛
Leizhou 目眉
Puxian Min Putian 目眉毛
Xianyou 目眉毛
Pinghua Nanning 眼眉、眼眉毛、眉毛
Guilin 眉毛
Wu Shanghai 眉毛
Suzhou 眉毛
Hangzhou 眉毛
Wenzhou 眼黧毛
Chongming 眉毛
Danyang 眉毛
Jinhua 眉毛
Ningbo 眼眉毛
Xiang Changsha 眉毛
Shuangfeng 眉毛
Loudi 眼眉毛、眉毛
Quanzhou 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, rōmaji mayu)

  1. eyebrow
Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  • 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)

  1. eyebrows
  2. upper margin of book

Vietnamese

Hán tự in this word
眉

Han character

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