眦
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(anatomy) corner of the eye; canthus
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 目 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 眥
- Common rank
- #3,240
- Unicode
- U+7726
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 眦
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 发指眦裂 | hair standing up and eyes wide in anger (idiom); enraged; in a towering rage | |
| 以眦睚杀人 | to kill sb for a trifle | |
| 外眦 | (anatomy) lateral canthus; outer corner of the eye | |
| 内眦 | (anatomy) medial canthus; inner corner of the eye | |
| 目眦 | eye socket | |
| 睚眦必报 | lit. to seek revenge over a dirty look (idiom); fig. small-minded; vindictive | |
| 眦睚 | see 睚眥|睚眦[ya2 zi4] | |
| 睚眦 | (literary) to glare in anger; (literary) (fig.) a small grievance |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 此 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 此 sound part | this, these; in this case, then | |
| 紫 | purple, violet; amethyst; surname | |
| 柴 | firewood, faggots, fuel; surname | |
| 雌 | female; feminine; gentle, soft | |
| 些 | little, few; rather, somewhat | |
| 赀 | wealth, property; to estimate, to count | |
| 呲 | to grimace; to bare one's teeth | |
| 疵 | flaw, fault, defect; disease | |
| 觜 | beak | |
| 訾 | to criticize, to bad-mouth; defect; betrayal | |
| 龇 | to bare one's teeth; crooked teeth | |
| 茈 | a plant yielding a red dye | |
| 髭 | mustache |