目

目 U+76EE, 目 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-76EE ← 盭 [U+76ED] CJK Unified Ideographs 盯 → [U+76EF]

⽬ U+2F6C, ⽬ KANGXI RADICAL EYE ← ⽫ [U+2F6B] Kangxi Radicals ⽭ → [U+2F6D]

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

1. Kangxi radical #109, ⽬.

• Appendix:Chinese radical/目
• 𪜮, 𠖻, 𡊟, 𭑰, 𭜜, 𢪷, 泪, 𨒚, 𣭒, 㺺, 𪛟, 𥎶, 𮕲, 𮋦, 𦨧, 𧊁, 𬅧, 𧠦, 𧻃, 鉬(钼), 𩶖, 𪌔, 𣦦, 𬕾
• 自, 𡧟, 𭕘, 苜, 冒, 㾇, 窅, 㸔, 𥬥, 𦒿, 𫡼, 𠷒, 𦴔, 𮦋, 𫳤, 𩬞, 𪊣, 𩄯, 𥌕, 𫔝, 䆩, 𮅕, 夐, 𢿌, 敻, 𡕷
• 見, 貝, 𡕥, 𡭨, 具, 𪫩, 狊, 鼎, 𥇴, 𦎝, 𧌪, 𩶔, 𫧐, 𡇌, 䢥, 繉, 𧇖, 𤪓, 𤪻, 𣿰, 䕎, 霿

• 𦥷, 曼, 夢, 蔑, 德

• 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

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

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

See also 直, 真, 見, 頁, 夏, 面, 臣 and the earlier versions of 要. The eye is not rotated in the character 𢛳, 曼, 睪, and 眔 (used in 褱).

Sometimes it depicts a web (网) through its variant 罒, e.g., 買, 罵, 罪, 詈 (used in 罰) and 羅 (> 罗). Unrelated to 鼎 and 貝.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-mjak ~ s-mik. Cognate with Tibetan མིག (mig, “eye”), Burmese မျက် (myak, “eye, face”).

目

1. (literary or Min) eye (Classifier: 雙／双 mn-t)

   See also: 眼

   耳目  ―  ěrmù  ―  ears and eyes; spies

   目睭 [Hokkien]  ―  ba̍k-chiu [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  eye

2. ^† eyesight
3. ^† to look; to view; to see
4. ^† to wink at
5. ^† to judge; to comment on
6. ^† opinion; viewpoint
7. ^† to view as; to regard
8. ^⁜ item; entry

   賬目／账目  ―  zhàngmù  ―  entry

9. ^† title; headline
10. ^† section
11. ^⁜ list; catalogue; table of contents

    目錄／目录  ―  mùlù  ―  catalogue

12. ^† name
13. ^⁜ target; goal

    目標／目标  ―  mùbiāo  ―  target

    目的  ―  mùdì  ―  target, goal

14. ^† 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 or Hokkien) hole; cavity; eyelet
18. (Hokkien) joint; knot; lump

    柴目 [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.

• (Taxonomy) 生物分類學／生物分类学; 域 (yù, “domain”), 界 (jiè, “kingdom”), 門／门 (mén, “phylum”), 綱／纲 (gāng, “class”), 目 (mù, “order”), 科 (kē, “family”), 屬／属 (shǔ, “genus”), 種／种 (zhǒng, “species”) ^{(Category: zh:Taxonomy)}

• “目”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02756
• “Entry #1864”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

(First grade kyōiku kanji)

• Go-on: もく (moku, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ぼく (boku, Jōyō ^†)
• Kun: め (me, 目, Jōyō)、ま (ma, 目, Jōyō ^†)
• Nanori: さかん (sakan)、さがん (sagan)、さっか (sakka)、さつか (satsuka)

Kanji in this term
目
め Grade: 1
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 目 – see the following entry.

【め】 [noun] [from 712] 目, 眼: eye [noun] [from 720] 目: visually prominent feature of something: [noun] [from 720] 目: small hole, like those inherent to a net-like material (between the warp and the weft) [noun] [from 759] 目: short for 賽の目 (sai no me, “dice pip”). [noun] [from late 900s] 目: (by extension) experience [suffix] [from early 1400s] 目: -st, -nd, -rd, or -th, for ordinal numbers (e.g. 8th or eighth, 9th or ninth) [suffix] [from late 1800s] 目: visually prominent feature of something Alternative spelling 眼

(This term, 目, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Kanji in this term
目
ま Grade: 1
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 目 – see the following entry.

【ま】 [noun] 目, 眼: prefixal bound form of め (me, “eye”) Alternative spelling 眼

(This term, 目, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Kanji in this term
目
もく Grade: 1
goon

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

• (Tokyo) もく [móꜜkù] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [mo̞kɯ̟]

目(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

• (Taxonomy) 生物(せいぶつ)の分類(ぶんるい) (seibutsu no bunrui); ドメイン (domein, “domain”), 界(かい) (kai, “kingdom”), 門(もん) (mon, “phylum”), 綱(こう) (kō, “class”), 目(もく) (moku, “order”), 科(か) (ka, “family”), 属(ぞく) (zoku, “genus”), 種(しゅ) (shu, “species”) ^{(Category: ja:Taxonomy)}

Kanji in this term
目
ぼく Grade: 1
kan'on

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

• IPA^(key): [bo̞kɯ̟]

目(ぼく) • (boku) 

1. eye
2. look, appearance

From Middle Chinese 目 (MC mjuwk).

Historical Readings
Dongguk Jeongun Reading
Dongguk Jeongun, 1448	목〮 (Yale: mwók)
Middle Korean
Text	Eumhun
	Gloss (hun)	Reading
Hunmong Jahoe, 1527[2]	눈〮 (Yale: nwún)	목〮 (Yale: mwók)

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [mo̞k̚]
• Phonetic hangul: [목]

Wikisource

目 (eumhun 눈 목 (nun mok))

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

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [3]

(First grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: みー (mī, 目)

Cognate with mainland Japanese 目(め) (me, “eye”).

目(みー) (mī) 

1. eye
2. sight

(First grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: むぃー (mïi, 目)

Cognate with mainland Japanese 目(め) (me, “eye”).

目(むぃー) (mïi) 

1. eye
2. sight

(First grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: みー (mī, 目)

Cognate with mainland Japanese 目(め) (me, “eye”).

目(みー) (mī) 

1. eye
2. sight

(First grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: むぃー (mïi, 目)

Cognate with mainland Japanese 目(め) (me, “eye”).

目(むぃー) (mïi) 

1. eye
2. sight

(First grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: むぃー (mwī, 目)

Cognate with mainland Japanese 目(め) (me, “eye”).

目(むぃー) (mwī) 

1. eye
2. sight

• 𤶽 (mụt)^[1]

目: Hán Việt readings: mục (莫(mạc)六(lục)切(thiết))^[2][3][1][4]
目: Nôm readings: mục^[2][1][4][5], mụt^[6][1]

1. chữ Hán form of mục (“item”).