EntryCommonJLPT N1
  1. Godan verb with 'ru' ending, Transitive verb

    to close (one's eyes); to shut

    Usually written using kana alonesee 目をつぶる

    あまりに光が強いので彼女は目をつぶった。
    She shut her eyes because the light was so strong.
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Characters in this word

1
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

sleep, dark, close eyes

Kun
めい.するつぶ.るつむ.るくら.い
On
メイベンミョウミンメン
Strokes
15
Frequency
2326 of 2500
Radical
eye

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Dictionary and index codes (12)
CodeReference
1-5-10SKIP code
5c10.3The Kanji Dictionary
6708.0Four corner code
7791Unicode hex code
1-66-52JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3151Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3954New Nelson (John Haig)
2842Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2859Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
23600Morohashi
ming2Pinyin reading
myeong, myeonKorean reading