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U+76EE, 目
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-76EE

[U+76ED]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+76EF]

U+2F6C, ⽬
KANGXI RADICAL EYE

[U+2F6B]
Kangxi Radicals
[U+2F6D]

Translingual

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Stroke order
5 strokes
Stroke order

Han character

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

  1. Kangxi radical #109, .

Derived characters

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See also

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References

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

Chinese

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simp. and trad.
alternative forms 𥃦
𡇡
𥆤
⿵𦉪山
𡆲

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Qin slip script Ancient script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – human eye, now rotated 90 degrees. Compare the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓁹.

See also , , , , , and the earlier versions of . The eye is not rotated in the character 𢛳, , , and (used in ).

Sometimes it depicts a web () through its variant , e.g., , , , (used in ) and (> ). Unrelated to , , and .

Etymology

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mjək. Cognate with Tibetan མིག (mig, eye), Burmese မျက် (myak, eye, face).

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • mĕk/mĕ̤k - colloquial;
  • mŭk - literary.
Note:
  • bah7, mah7 - colloquial;
  • borh7 - literary.
Note:
  • ba̍k - colloquial (“eye; hole; joint; classifier for segments; classifier for pieces in Go”);
  • bo̍k - literary.
Note:
  • mag8 - colloquial;
  • mog4 - literary.
Note: 8maq - used in 數目数目.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /mu⁵¹/
Harbin /mu⁵³/
Tianjin /mu⁵³/
Jinan /mu²¹/
Qingdao /mu⁴²/
Zhengzhou /mu²⁴/
Xi'an /mu²¹/
Xining /mv̩⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /mu¹³/
Lanzhou /mu¹³/
Ürümqi /mu²¹³/
Wuhan /mu³⁵/
/moŋ³⁵/
Chengdu /mu³¹/
Guiyang /mu²¹/
Kunming /mu³¹/
Nanjing /muʔ⁵/
Hefei /məʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /məʔ²/
Pingyao /mʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /məʔ⁴³/ ~的
/mu⁵⁵/ 眼~
Wu Shanghai /moʔ¹/
Suzhou /moʔ³/
Hangzhou /moʔ²/
Wenzhou /mu²¹³/
Hui Shexian /mɔ²²/
Tunxi /mo¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /mo²⁴/
Xiangtan /mo²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /muʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /muk̚¹/
Taoyuan /muk̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /mok̚²/
Nanning /muk̚²²/
Hong Kong /muk̚²/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /bɔk̚⁵/
/bak̚⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /møyʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /mu⁴²/
Shantou (Teochew) /mak̚⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /mok̚³/
/mak̚³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (4)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter mjuwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mɨuk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/miuk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/miuk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/muwk̚/
Li
Rong
/miuk̚/
Wang
Li
/mĭuk̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/mi̯uk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
muk6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ mjuwk ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.m(r)[u]k/
English eye

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 9333
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*muɡ/

Definitions

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  1. (literary or Min) eye (Classifier: mn-t)
    See also:
      ―  ěr  ―  ears and eyes; spies
    [Hokkien]  ―  ba̍k-chiu [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  eye
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) eyesight
  3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to look; to view; to see
  4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to wink at
  5. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to judge; to comment on
  6. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) opinion; viewpoint
  7. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to view as; to regard
  8. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) item; entry
      ―  zhàng  ―  entry
  9. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) title; headline
  10. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) section
  11. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) list; catalogue; table of contents
      ―    ―  catalogue
  12. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) name
  13. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) target; goal
      ―  biāo  ―  target
      ―    ―  target, goal
  14. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) chief; head; leader
  15. (taxonomy) order
  16. (Classical) to call; to address (of people's names and titles)
    Synonym: 稱呼 / 称呼 (chēnghū)
  17. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, obsolete or Hokkien) hole; cavity; eyelet
  18. (Hokkien) joint; knot; lump
    [Hokkien]  ―  chhâ-ba̍k [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  lumps on wood
  19. (Hokkien) Classifier for segments, such as sugar cane.
  20. (Taiwanese Hokkien) Classifier for pieces in Go.

Synonyms

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Compounds

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Descendants

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Sino-Xenic ():
  • Japanese: (もく) (moku)
  • Korean: 목(目) (mok)
  • Vietnamese: mục ()

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References

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(First grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. eye (,, まなこ)[1]
  2. eyesight
  3. main part of something (かなめ)
  4. chief; head; leader
  5. name; appellation
  6. subdivision
  7. (taxonomy) order
  8. face; honor
  9. right now
  10. joint

Readings

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Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term
Grade: 1
Alternative spelling

⟨me2 → */məɨ//me/

From Old Japanese,[2] from Proto-Japonic *mai. Cognate with () (ma, bound form). Now the modern Japanese term for eye.

Probably cognate with () (miru, to see, to look).[2]

May also be cognate with () (me, bud, shoot),[2] perhaps from the “visually prominent feature” sense, and with suppositional / volitional verb suffix (mu) (presenting in modern Japanese verb conjugations as the or -yō endings), perhaps from the “seem like, look like” sense.

Alternative forms

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  • (non-productive, bound form)
    • (prefixal) (ma)

Pronunciation

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Noun

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() (me

  1. [from 712] , : eye
    ()かゆいです。
    Me ga kayui desu.
    My eyes feel itchy.
    (ねむ)そうな()する(ねむ)そうな()こする
    nemusō na me o suru, nemusō na me o kosuru
    to have a sleepy look on one's face (eyes that look sleepy), to rub sleepy eyes
  2. [from 720] visually prominent feature of something:
    1. [from 720] small hole, like those inherent to a net-like material (between the warp and the weft)
      Hyponym: おりめ (orime)
      ミシン()
      mishin-me
      perforation
      (ほそ)(め・あら)()
      hosome arame
      small hole; large hole
    2. [from 759] short for 賽の目 (sai no me, dice pip)
      • 2015 January 10, “(あく)()のサイコロ [Demon’s Die]”, in 決闘者の栄光 -記憶の断片- side:武藤遊戯 [Duelist Road -Piece of Memory- side: Mutō Yūgi], Konami:
        (いち):サイコロを(いっ)(かい)()る。(あい)()フィールドのモンスターの(こう)(げき)力・守(りょく・しゅ)()(りょく)は、ターン(しゅう)(りょう)()まで()()(かず)×(かける)100( ひゃく)ダウンする。
        Ichi: Saikoro o ikkai furu. Aite fīrudo no monsutā no kōgekiryoku shubiryoku wa, tān shūryōji made deta me no kazu kakeru hyaku daun suru.
        1: Roll a die once. Until the end of this turn, the attack and defense strength of the monsters on your opponent’s field decreases by the result ×100.
      • 2015 September 19, “サイコロン [Dicyclone]”, in STRUCTURE DECK R -真帝王降臨- [STRUCTURE DECK R -Advent of the True Sovereign-], Konami:
        (いち):サイコロを(いっ)(かい)()り、()()(こう)()(てき)(よう)する。
        Ichi: Saikoro o ikkai furi, deta me no kōka o tekiyō suru.
        1: Roll a die once, then apply an effect accordingly to the result.
    3. [from late 900s] (by extension) experience
      Synonym: 体験
      (いた)()()
      itai me ni au
      to go through something terrible
      (ひど)()()
      hidoi me ni au
      to meet a terrible fate
      大変(たいへん)()()
      taihen na me ni au
      experience something serious
Derived terms
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Suffix

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() (-me

  1. [from early 1400s] -st, -nd, -rd, or -th, for ordinal numbers (e.g. 8th or eighth, 9th or ninth)
    三本(さんぼん)()のボトル
    sanbon-me no botoru
    third bottle
  2. [from late 1800s] visually prominent feature of something
    (むす)()()()()()
    musubime, amime, kikime
    knot (literally, “tying + [visual feature]”), stitch (literally, “knitting + [visual feature]”), effect or efficacy (literally, “working, having an effect + [visual feature]”)
  3. : (attached to verb or i-adjective roots to produce na-adjectives, no longer productive with verbs) in that direction, trending in that way
    多い (ooi, great, many, much) + ‎ (-me) + ‎ → ‎多め (oome, on the greater side)
    控える (hikaeru, to restrain, to hold back) + ‎ (-me) + ‎ → ‎控えめ (hikaeme, with restraint, holding back)

Etymology 2

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Kanji in this term

Grade: 1
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
[noun] , : prefixal bound form of (me, eye)
Alternative spelling
(This term, , is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 3

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Kanji in this term
もく
Grade: 1
goon

From Middle Chinese (MC mjuwk). Compare modern Cantonese (muk6) and Wu (moq).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(もく) (moku

  1. (taxonomy) an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger than a family
  2. a playing piece in a board game, such as a stone in the game of go
  3. a point in the game of go
Coordinate terms
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Derived terms
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Etymology 4

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Kanji in this term
ぼく
Grade: 1
kan'on

From Middle Chinese (MC mjuwk). Compare modern Min Nan (bo̍k).

Pronunciation

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Affix

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(ぼく) (boku

  1. eye
  2. look, appearance
Derived terms
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References

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  1. ^ ”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Shōgaku Tosho (1988), 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  3. 3.0 3.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
  5. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

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Etymology

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From Middle Chinese (MC mjuwk).

Historical readings
Dongguk Jeongun reading
Dongguk Jeongun, 1448 목〮 (Yale: mwók)
Middle Korean
Text Eumhun
Gloss (hun) Reading
Hunmong Jahoe, 1527[4] 눈〮 (Yale: nwún) 목〮 (Yale: mwók)

Pronunciation

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Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

(eumhun (nun mok))

  1. hanja form? of (eye) [affix]
  2. hanja form? of ((taxonomy) class) [noun]

Compounds

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References

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  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [5]

Miyako

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Kanji

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(First grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

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Etymology

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Cognate with mainland Japanese () (me, eye).

Noun

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(みー) (

  1. eye
  2. sight

Northern Amami Ōshima

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Kanji

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(First grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

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Etymology

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Cognate with mainland Japanese () (me, eye).

Noun

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(むぃー) (mïi

  1. eye
  2. sight

Okinawan

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Kanji

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(First grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

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Etymology

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Cognate with mainland Japanese () (me, eye).

Noun

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(みー) (

  1. eye
  2. sight

Derived terms

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Southern Amami Ōshima

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Kanji

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(First grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

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Etymology

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Cognate with mainland Japanese () (me, eye).

Noun

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(むぃー) (mïi

  1. eye
  2. sight

Derived terms

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Tokunoshima

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Kanji

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(First grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

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Etymology

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Cognate with mainland Japanese () (me, eye).

Noun

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(むぃー) (mwī

  1. eye
  2. sight

Vietnamese

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Alternative forms

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Han character

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: Hán Việt readings: mục ((mạc)(lục)(thiết))[2][3][1][4]
: Nôm readings: mục[2][1][4][5], mụt[6][1]

  1. chữ Hán form of mục (item)

Compounds

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References

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