Memory phrase for the character: 睫


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Meaning

eyelashes

Pronunciation

jié

Explanation

Left: eye 目, right: 疌 (middle: hand with stick 尹, rest: correct 正) Here: 疌 as a part of fast 捷

Mnemonic


 
At the eye the fast: are the eyelashes. OR: At the eye 目 are the ten 十 things moving correctly 正 like one hand : The eyelashes.

Radicals

eyeImage of an eye with a central pupil 口.
hand with stickShows a hand with a stick ノ and is often used for “ruling”. For “beating 攴”, this stick 卜 in this hand 又 is used and simplified to 攵.
handsomeThe sun 日 shines on an eye with long eyelashes 又.




 Vocabulary

迫在眉睫 pò zài méi jié  pressing in on one's eyelashes (idiom); imminent
睫毛 jié máo  eyelashes
睫状体 jié zhuàng tǐ  ciliary body (in the eye, containing the focusing muscles)
睫状体 jié zhuàng tǐ  


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