Meaning & readings
wink, blink, twinkle
On’yomi シュン
Kun’yomi またた.く、まじろ.ぐ
Origin
The left side of this character, the eye radical (目), directly represents the action of blinking or winking — it's the body part involved. The right component (舜) acts as a sound hint, telling you roughly how to pronounce the character. Together they create a character that means the quick eye movements we make when we blink or when light sparkles — the eye doing something fast and momentary.
Components
- 目
- 舜
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 18
- Kangxi radical
- 109
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #1265 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+077AC