目翳

Chinese

		eye; item; section eye; item; section; list; catalogue; table of contents; order (taxonomy); goal; name; title	feather screen; to screen; to shade
simp. and trad. (目翳)		目	翳
variant 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 (“eye”) + 翳 (“shade; screen; cataract”).

目翳 (hiragana ひ, rōmaji hi)

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

内 (そ)障 (こ)眼 (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 (そ)障 (こ)眼 (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 (う)障 (わ)眼 (ひ) (uwahi), 上翳 (うわひ) (uwahi): cloudiness occurring in front of the lens: corneal clouding

1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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