mèi

to look far with the eyes half-closed (to narrow the eyes)

Evolution

䀛 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

 

mèi

to look far with the eyes half-closed (to narrow the eyes), to look at for a long time, daybreak; dawn, to look not straight forward, to disturb; to dizzy; dark, to look at ferocious

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+401B

Shuowen

“,目冥遠視也。从目,勿聲。一曰久也。一曰旦明也。”


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