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漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

眉: eyebrow

JLPT N19 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

丿 and 目 carry the meaning

9 strokes
  • Bronze · Western Zhou
  • Today

Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Two readings, and the words that use each

ビbi · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 焦眉しょうびemergency; urgency; imminence

まゆmayu · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 眉まゆeyebrow; eyebrows
  • 眉毛まゆげeyebrow

Also read ミ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“See the world through this upright window! This is an eye standing tall.”
More in the 目 eye story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
丿

Also built on diagonal sweeping stroke (丿)

All 35
目

Also built on eye (目)

All 24

Also read ビ

7 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read ミ

5 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
眉 eyebrow · 丿
vs看 watch over · 手
眉 has 丿 where 看 has 手.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · méi

Same form: 眉 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
眉 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
眉 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin méi most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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