目白
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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目 | 白 |
め Grade: 1 | しろ > じろ Grade: 1 |
kun’yomi |
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眼白 繍眼児 |
Etymology
Compound of 目 (me, “eye”) + 白 (shiro, “white”).
The shiro changes to jiro as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
Pronunciation
- Kun’yomi
- (Tokyo) めじろ [mèjíró] (Heiban – [0])[1]
- IPA(key): [me̞ʑiɾo̞]
Noun
![](Images/wiktionary/Zosterops_japonicus_and_Camellia_japonica.JPG.webp)
目白: a Japanese white-eye feeding upon a white camellia (白玉椿, Camellia japonica)
目白 • (mejiro)
- the Japanese white-eye, Zosterops japonicus
- haiku by Sekitei Hara (1886-1951)
- 菜畑の 日和をわたる 目白かな
- nabatake no, hiyori o wataru, mejiro kana
- In a field of green / passing a fine day / perhaps a white-eye
- 菜畑の 日和をわたる 目白かな
- Hypernym: 雀 (suzume)
- haiku by Sekitei Hara (1886-1951)
- a white-eye (any other passerine birds of the family Zosteropidae)
Derived terms
- 目白押し (mejiro-oshi)
- 目白鮫 (mejirozame)
- 目白通り (Mejiro-dōri)
- 目白酸漿 (mejiro hōzuki)
Proper noun
目白 • (Mejiro)
- a place name
- a surname
References
- 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN