目翳

Chinese

	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)	目	翳
simp. ^#(目翳)	目	翳
alternative forms	目瞖

目翳

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 目 (mù, “eye”) + 翳 (yì, “shade; screen; cataract”).

目翳(ひ) • (hi)

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

内障眼(そこひ) (sokohi), 内障(そこひ) (sokohi), 内障(そこひ) (sokohi): cloudiness occurring behind the lens, within the eyeball: glaucoma (for green cloudiness), cataracts (for white cloudiness), amaurosis (for black cloudiness)

内障眼(そこひ) (sokohi), 内障(そこひ) (sokohi), 内障(そこひ) (sokohi), 底翳(そこひ) (sokohi): cloudiness occurring behind the lens, within the eyeball: glaucoma (for green cloudiness), cataracts (for white cloudiness), amaurosis (for black cloudiness)
外障眼(うわひ) (uwahi), 上翳(うわひ) (uwahi): cloudiness occurring in front of the lens: corneal clouding

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

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