目

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[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

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

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Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

目 (jyutping muk6, Yale muk6)

[edit] Japanese

[edit] Etymology 1

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

[edit] Noun

Blueye.JPG

目 (hiragana ま, romaji ma)

  1. (anatomy) eye
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[edit] Etymology 2

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

[edit] Noun

目 (hiragana め, romaji me)

  1. (anatomy) eye

[edit] Kanji

目 (grade 1 kanji)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

目
Eumhun:

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

[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

目 (pinyin mù (mu4), Wade-Giles mu4)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

目 (mục, mụt)

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