Entry
  1. Noun

    sand, ash, etc., thrown in the eyes to blind someone; throwing something at someone's eyes to blind them

    「軽くならいいけど」「うむ、では金的と目潰しは有効にするか?」
    "If it's a light workout, OK." "Right, so will we allow crotch-kicking and eyeball crushing?"
  2. eye poke (in combat sports); eye-gouging

    see サミング

Also written 目つぶし【めつぶし】

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

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

Kun
-めま-
On
モクボク
Strokes
5
Taught
Grade 1
JLPT
N4
Frequency
76 of 2500
Radical
eye
WaniKani
Level 2

Built from

Used in names as

さかんさがんさっかさつか

Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
3-3-2, 4-5-1SKIP code
5c0.1The Kanji Dictionary
6010.1Four corner code
3979deroo
76eeUnicode hex code
1-44-60JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3127Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3906New Nelson (John Haig)
3043New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3777Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1927Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2619Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
15Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
15Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
65A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
191Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
22Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
23105Morohashi
72A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
55Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
55Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
25sakade
75Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
30henshall3
48Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
91crowley
168Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
3.11busy_people
1376Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
15Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
mu4Pinyin reading
mogKorean reading
n4JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
2WaniKani level
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

crush, smash, break, dissipate

Kun
つぶ.すつぶ.れるつい.える
On
カイ
Strokes
15
Taught
Junior high
Radical
water

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (16)
CodeReference
1-3-12SKIP code
3a12.14The Kanji Dictionary
3518.6Four corner code
6f70Unicode hex code
1-36-57JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
2701Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3335New Nelson (John Haig)
743New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
919Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
677Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2319Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1911Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
18281Morohashi
1229Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
kui4, hui4Pinyin reading
gweKorean reading