目脂

Japanese
目脂 (meyani): a cat's face, showing the dried rheum or eye mucus just below the tear ducts.
Kanji in this term
目 脂
め
Grade: 1		 やに
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 目 (me, “eye”) +‎ 脂 (yani, “resin”).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) めやに​ [mèyáníꜜ] (Odaka – [3])[1][2]
  • IPA(key): [me̞ja̠ɲ̟i]

Noun

目(め)脂(やに) • (meyani) 

  1. gound, rheum, eye mucus

Synonyms

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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