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tsurime

tsurime noun: eyes slanted upward on the outside.

Noun

tsurime (uncountable)

  1. (Japanese) Eyes slanted upward on the outside.
    • tsurime eyes
    • Borrowing the language of America's culture wars, online critics condemned the depiction as "politically/racially correct" for reproducing what they deemed racially offensive western orientalist tropes by depicting the character with "tsurime" (slanted eyes) and black hair.[2023 July 28, “The Matter of Hāfu Lives”, in Helaine Selin, Kimiko Tanaka, editors, Sustainability, Diversity, and Equality: Key Challenges for Japan, →ISBN, page 321
  2. (Japan) A makeup style, similar to pien and associated with jirai kei, drawn with tsurime.
    • I think we should add more makeup styles to jirai kei. Pien and tsurime makeup looks so cute, but I feel like we could have so many more options !!2025 December 29, @kouuzyyy, X (post), archived from the original on 16 May 2026
    • i'm so obsessed with tsurime makeup i want to do more and more but i'm so sleepy eepy2026 January 9, @erohimekaiju, X (post), archived from the original on 16 May 2026

Examples of tsurime in a sentence

  • A very specific MadoMagi pet peeve of mine is when people draw Madoka with tsurime eyes (sharp eyes).2025 November 17, @homuffinz, X (post), archived from the original on 16 May 2026:
  • to my jiraitwt oomfs do u do tsurime or pien makeup? i personally do pien (* ´ ▽ ` *)2026 April 15, @idoihrt, X (post), archived from the original on 16 May 2026:

Origin of tsurime

Borrowed from Japanese つりめ.

Questions about tsurime

What does tsurime mean?
Tsurime means eyes slanted upward on the outside.
How do you use tsurime in a sentence?
A very specific MadoMagi pet peeve of mine is when people draw Madoka with tsurime eyes (sharp eyes).
What part of speech is tsurime?
Tsurime is a noun.

Words near tsurime in the dictionary

  1. tsungtus
  2. tsuns
  3. Tsunyi
  4. tsuridashi
  5. tsuridono
  6. tsurime
  7. tsuriotoshi
  8. tsuris
  9. Tsurmast
  10. Tsuruga
  11. tsurugi

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