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眼鏡 [ichi1,news1,nf13]
【メガネ (nokanji) [spec1] ；めがね [gikun/ichi1,news1,nf13] 】

[n] [uk]
▶ glasses
▶ eyeglasses
▶ spectacles

Cross references:
	⇐ see: 2862467 眼鏡【がんきょう】 1. glasses; eyeglasses; spectacles

[n]
▶ judgment
▶ judgement
▶ discrimination
▶ discernment
▶ insight

Cross references:
	⇒ see: 2251260 眼鏡にかなう 1. to win the favour of (favor); to be acknowledged (e.g. by a superior); to measure up to

[n] [uk,derog]
▶ four-eyes

History:

20.	A 2025-02-02 22:40:07 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	めがね違い 97 眼鏡違い 309 メガネ違い 209
	Comments:	OK. Others may not agree.
	Diff:	@@ -30,0 +31 @@ +<xref type="see" seq="2251260">眼鏡にかなう</xref>
19.	A* 2025-02-02 13:22:09 Brian Krznarich <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	眼鏡にかなう 17082 98.2% 眼鏡違い 309 1.8%
	Comments:	Request to reconsider xref of 眼鏡にかなう I get the impression that [2] barely exists in modern Japanese outside of "眼鏡にかなう". I should have said that explicitly. You can see, for example, the relative non-existence even of 眼鏡違い. It is also the third sense in sankoku, after a sense we don't even have: 望遠鏡・潜望鏡 (telescope/periscope, should we add this?). In cases where a term really exists only within some idiomatic expression, we regularly link the expression. This provides clarity to the nuance of the term (rather than the expansive list of glosses which suggest a flexibility that this term may not really have), and prevents people from trying to do an A+B translation of an idiom, leading to a shoddy translation/understanding. 眼鏡 has enough collocations in jmdict that you might not readily find 眼鏡にかなう even though they share a prefix. Not all jmdict users are savvy enough to go hunting for longer expressions, so I really think the xref is beneficial here.
18.	A 2025-02-01 20:36:58 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	I don't think those xrefs help.
	Diff:	@@ -31,2 +30,0 @@ -<xref type="see" seq="2076190">お眼鏡</xref> -<xref type="see" seq="2251260">眼鏡にかなう</xref>
17.	A* 2025-02-01 12:57:01 Brian Krznarich <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	眼鏡にかなう 17082 81.2% お眼鏡にかなう 2785 13.2% おメガネにかなう 431 2.0% メガネにかなう 745 3.5%
	Comments:	Not clear that [2] would be [uk]. Sankoku gives 「メガネ」とも書く on [1], but nothing on [2]. sankoku gives ~ちがい as an example... 眼鏡違い 309 48.4% メガネ違い 209　<--- possibly just the wrong glasses めがね違い 97 Example sentences are all in kanji: https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/眼鏡違い眼鏡違い <眼鏡> an error of judgment; (a) misjudgment == Also, daijs has →御眼鏡 (おめがね) on [2]. We have it already, so I added.
	Diff:	@@ -31 +31,2 @@ -<misc>&uk;</misc> +<xref type="see" seq="2076190">お眼鏡</xref> +<xref type="see" seq="2251260">眼鏡にかなう</xref>
16.	A 2024-09-05 21:05:37 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
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15.	A* 2024-09-05 20:39:27 Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	Not uk for がんきょう. Splitting it out.
	Diff:	@@ -22,3 +21,0 @@ -<r_ele> -<reb>がんきょう</reb> -</r_ele> @@ -33,2 +29,0 @@ -<stagr>メガネ</stagr> -<stagr>めがね</stagr> @@ -44,2 +38,0 @@ -<stagr>メガネ</stagr> -<stagr>めがね</stagr>
14.	A 2024-09-04 21:32:13 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
13.	A* 2024-09-04 12:49:07 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	眼鏡 2228370 30.2% めがね 1206845 16.3% メガネ 3949144 53.5% がんきょう 2634 0.0% __ new sense: famously "増税メガネ" https://twitter.com/upihasasuke/status/636836293658341376 (manga with panel where character shouts 黙れ！！メガネ！！) https://twitter.com/kadai_mendokusa/status/1830832679585226777 (yesterday) 外から「おいメガネ！！！」って怒鳴り声聞こえてビクッとしちゃった https://twitter.com/zarazarame54/status/1831287985205371096　(1h ago) ャリ漕いでて、青信号だから渡ったら横から猛スピードできたおじチャリ🧓🏻🚲💨とぶつかりそうになって、捨て台詞に「あぶねーよ！！このメガネ！！」って。私悪くないしメガネもかけてない。あいつ全部間違ってる
	Diff:	@@ -9,0 +10,5 @@ +<r_ele> +<reb>メガネ</reb> +<re_nokanji/> +<re_pri>spec1</re_pri> +</r_ele> @@ -20,5 +24,0 @@ -<r_ele> -<reb>メガネ</reb> -<re_nokanji/> -<re_pri>spec1</re_pri> -</r_ele> @@ -32,0 +33 @@ +<stagr>メガネ</stagr> @@ -34 +34,0 @@ -<stagr>メガネ</stagr> @@ -41,0 +42,8 @@ +</sense> +<sense> +<stagr>メガネ</stagr> +<stagr>めがね</stagr> +<pos>&n;</pos> +<misc>&uk;</misc> +<misc>&derog;</misc> +<gloss>four-eyes</gloss>
12.	A 2023-11-11 07:17:37 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
11.	A* 2023-11-10 19:52:50 Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	meikyo, daijr, iwakoku
	Diff:	@@ -11,0 +12 @@ +<re_inf>&gikun;</re_inf>
10.	A 2019-03-14 05:57:46 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
9.	A* 2019-03-14 05:32:13 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	眼鏡 2228370 めがね 1206845 メガネ 3949144
	Diff:	@@ -25,0 +26 @@ +<misc>&uk;</misc> @@ -31,0 +33 @@ +<stagr>メガネ</stagr> @@ -32,0 +35 @@ +<misc>&uk;</misc>
8.	A 2018-08-26 23:27:32 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	https://www.dictionary.com/e/judgement-vs-judgment/
	Diff:	@@ -33,0 +34 @@ +<gloss>judgement</gloss>
7.	A* 2018-08-26 16:34:28
	Diff:	@@ -33 +33 @@ -<gloss>judgement</gloss> +<gloss>judgment</gloss>
6.	A 2018-05-22 14:40:19 Johan Råde <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	gg5
	Diff:	@@ -25,0 +26,2 @@ +<gloss>glasses</gloss> +<gloss>eyeglasses</gloss> @@ -27 +28,0 @@ -<gloss>glasses</gloss>
5.	A 2018-05-22 14:37:35 Johan Råde <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	G n-grams: 3949144
	Diff:	@@ -21,0 +22 @@ +<re_pri>spec1</re_pri>
4.	A 2013-08-17 07:10:03 Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...>
3.	A* 2013-08-17 01:35:37 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	Reopening.
2.	A 2013-08-17 01:35:08 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	AFAICT the newspaper frequencies are for めがね; not がんきょう. I considered making it "uk". The ngram figures are: 眼鏡 2228370 めがね 1206845 メガネ 3949144 I suspect that using メガネ is a webbish thing, though. Also, I'm approving it now, then reopening. I'm using it as an example in a talk, and I'd like メガネ to be there.
	Diff:	@@ -13,0 +13,2 @@ +<re_pri>news1</re_pri> +<re_pri>nf13</re_pri> @@ -16,2 +18,0 @@ -<re_pri>news1</re_pri> -<re_pri>nf13</re_pri>
1.	A* 2013-08-17 01:25:55 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	ngrams (メガネ more common than 眼鏡 + めがね)
	Diff:	@@ -19,0 +19,4 @@ +<r_ele> +<reb>メガネ</reb> +<re_nokanji/> +</r_ele>

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