Word details

Meanings, readings, and example sentences for the Japanese word .

Dictionary

Entry

Freq #118
1

Common noun

eye; eyeball

Examples
彼女はきれいなをしている。
She has beautiful eyes.
2

Common noun

eyesight; sight; vision

Examples
ヘレン・ケラーはと耳と口が不自由だった。
Helen Keller was blind, deaf and mute.
3

Common noun

look; stare; gaze; glance

Examples
彼は崇拝ので彼女を眺めた。
He regarded her with worship in his eyes.
4

Common noun

notice; attention; observation; eyes (of the world, public, etc.)

5

Common noun

an experience

6

Common noun

viewpoint

7

Common noun

discrimination; discernment; judgement; eye (e.g. for quality)

8

Common noun

(an) appearance

9

Common noun

chance (of success); possibility (of a good result)

10

Common noun

spacing (between crossed strands of a net, mesh, etc.); opening; stitch; texture; weave

11

Common noun

grain (of wood, paper)

12

Common noun

eye (of a storm, needle, etc.)

13

Common noun

intersection (on a go board); square (on a chessboard)

14

Common noun

dot (on a dice); pip; rolled number

15

Common noun

graduation; division (of a scale)

16

Common noun

tooth (of a saw, comb, etc.)

17

Suffix

ordinal number suffix

Examples
2つの角を右に曲がりなさい。
Turn right at the second corner.
18

Word usually written using kana alone; Suffix; After adjective stem

somewhat; -ish

19

Suffix; After -masu stem of verb

point (e.g. of change)

Character notes

Kanji in this Word

eye, class, look, insight, experience, care, favor

5 strokesFrequency 76JLPT N4Grade 1

On

モクボク

Kun

-めま-

Nanori

さかんさがんさっかさつか

eyeball

11 strokesFrequency 1,527JLPT N1Grade 5

On

ガンゲン

Kun

まなこ

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