眯
mīmí

be blinded

眯 mī frequency
variant 瞇
to squint verb
to narrow one's eyes; to keep one's eyes partially closed as when looking at something bright or small

猫的尾巴抽动着，眼睛眯了起来。

māo de wěi​ba chōu​dòng zhe, yǎn​jing mī le qǐ lái.

The cat’s tail twitched and its eyes narrowed.

to nap
to take a short nap; to close one's eyes for a brief rest
眯 mī
to embezzle
(slang) to pocket money illegally; to embezzle
眯 mí
to blind
to be blinded by dust or sand getting in the eyes; to have something get in one's eye

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,955th most common 10.4 per million
Movie subtitles
3,687th most common 1.09 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.22 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
8.10 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+772F

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)