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Chinese character radical
← 108 Radical 109 (U+2F6C) 110 →
(U+76EE) "eye"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:
Bopomofo:ㄇㄨˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:muh
Wade–Giles:mu
Cantonese Yale:muhk
Jyutping:muk6
Japanese Kana:ボク boku / モク moku (on'yomi)
め me (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:목 mok
Names
Chinese name(s):目字旁 mùzìpáng and added 眼睛 YANJiNG
Japanese name(s):目/め me
(Left) 目偏/めへん mehen
Hangul:눈 nun
Stroke order animation

Radical 109 or radical eye (目部) meaning "eye" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 647 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

目 is also the 105th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

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Sinogram

In isolation it is a Chinese character meaning eye. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a first grade kanji

References

  1. ^ "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

Further reading

  • Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.

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Chinese radicals according to the Kangxi Dictionary
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See also: Kangxi radicals
Simplified Chinese characters radicals (indexing components)
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GF 0011-2009 Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components prescribes 201 principle indexing components and 100 associated indexing components (in brackets) used in Simplified Chinese. Not all associated indexing components are listed above.
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