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Radical 109 目

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

Historical forms of the character 目
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 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)‎, 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 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.