Illustration: Inside a neighborhood barber shop, a customer reclines with a towel tucked around the collar while the barber carefully tidies one unusually bushy eyebrow. A tiny comb lifts the eyebrow hairs directly above the customer's closed eye, and small grooming scissors wait beside the comb.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

眉まゆ

mayu

eyebrow

Example sentences

妻つまの死しの知しらせを聞きいてもまゆ一ひとつ動うごかさなかった。
He did not even raise an eyebrow at the news of his wife’s death.
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彼かれは驚おどろいてまゆをつりあげた。
He arched his eyebrows in surprise.
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彼かれはまゆを上あげて難色なんしょくを示しめした。
He showed his disapproval by raising an eyebrow.
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Kanji in 眉

眉eyebrowOnビ・ミKunまゆ

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