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A polymerizable compound has a practical low melting point, excellent solubility in a general-purpose solvent, and can produce an optical film at low cost, exhibits low reflected luminance, and achieves uniform conversion of polarized light over a wide wavelength band, an optically anisotropic article. A carbonyl compound is useful as a raw material for producing the polymerizable compound. (In the formula (I), Y 1 to Y 8 represent —C(═O)—O—, G 1 and G 2 represent a C 1-20 divalent linear aliphatic group, Z 1 and Z 2 represent a C 2-10 alkenyl group that is unsubstituted, or substituted with a halogen atom, A x represents a C 2-30 organic group with at least one aromatic ring, A y represents a hydrogen atom or C 1-20 alkyl group, A 1 represents a trivalent aromatic group, A 2 and A 3 represent a C 3-30 divalent alicyclic hydrocarbon group, A 4 and A 5 represent a C 6-30 divalent aromatic group or the like, and Q 1 represents a hydrogen atom.) |