目

See also 且, 自, 耳, 貝, 見, and 罒

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Pictogram (象形): stylized depiction of the human eye, rotated 90 degrees.

			目
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

目 (radical 109 目+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 月山 (BU), four-corner 6010₁)

1. eye
2. look, see
3. division, topic, (biology) order

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/目
• 冒

References

• KangXi: page 798, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23105
• Dae Jaweon: page 1213, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2467, character 1
• Unihan data for U+76EE

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Cantonese

Hanzi

目 (jyutping muk6, Yale muk6)

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Japanese

Etymology 1

Older, unbound form of me₂. Cognate with miru (“to see”).

Noun

目 (hiragana ま, romaji ma)

1. (anatomy) eye

Derived terms

• 目 (め, me)
• 睫 (まつげ, matsuge)
• 瞼 (まぶた, mabuta)
• 前 (まえ, mae)
• 瞬く (またたく, matataku)
• 瞬く (まばたく, mabataku)

Etymology 2

/me₂/ *[məj] > /me/ [me]. Compound of unbound ma with suffix i.

Noun

目 (hiragana め, romaji me)

1. (anatomy) eye

   目がかゆいです。

   めがかゆいです。
   Me ga kayui desu.

   My eyes feel itchy.

Suffix

目 (hiragana め, romaji me)

1. -st, -nd, -rd, or -th, for ordinal numbers (e.g. 8th or eighth, 9th or ninth)

   三本目のボトル

   さんぼんめのボトル
   san bon me no botoru

   third bottle

Kanji

目 literally means eye, combined with 玉 means eyeball.

Readings

• On: もく (moku), ぼく (boku)
• Kun: め (me), ま (ma)

Compounds

• 細目 (さいもく, saimoku, “details”)
• 目玉 (めだま, medama, “eyeball”)

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Korean

Hanja

目
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 목 (revised: mok, McCune-Reischauer: mok, Yale: mok)

• Name (hangeul): 눈 (revised: nun, McCune-Reischauer: nun)

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Mandarin

Etymology

Late Middle Chinese (Middle Chinese) mjuk入, Old Chinese *mjəkʷ. Cognate with Old Tibetan མིག (mig, “eye”).

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

目 (pinyin mù (mu4), Wade-Giles mu⁴)

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Compounds

• 目不见睫
• 目不交睫
• 目不忍睹
• 目不识丁
• 目不暇接
• 目不斜视
• 目不转睛
• 目测
• 目次
• 目瞪口呆
• 目的
• 目的地
• 目的论
• 目睹
• 目光
• 目光如豆
• 目光如炬
• 目击
• 目见
• 目今
• 目空一切
• 目力
• 目力表
• 目录
• 目迷五色
• 目前
• 目送
• 目无法纪
• 目无余子
• 目下
• 目眩
• 目中无人
• 目犍连
• 嚙齒目動物

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Vietnamese

Han character

目 (mục, mụt)

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