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

Kun’yomi
- (Tokyo) めやに [mèyáníꜜ] (Odaka – [3])[1][2]
- IPA^(key): [me̞ja̠ɲ̟i]

Noun

目脂 (hiragana めやに, rōmaji meyani)

gound, rheum, eye mucus

Synonyms

目 (め)糞 (くそ) (mekuso), 目 (め)垢 (あか) (meaka)

References

2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

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