Kilo Lingo

(mù) - eye; item, list (bound morpheme) in Mandarin

Traditional: 目

Line drawing of 目
Coloured illustration of 目
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Translation

eye; item, list (bound morpheme)

Word origin

A pictographic character, originally a drawing of an eye turned upright, meaning eye and, by extension, an item in a list.

Origin
pictographic
Root
a pictograph of an eye stood on end

Stroke order

Stroke order for 目

Examples

His goal is very simple.

Please state your goal.

He achieved his goal.

wēnróu

His gaze is very gentle.

Please look at the programme's contents page.

目 (mù) means eye and, by extension, an item or entry on a list; it pairs with 标 in 目标 (mùbiāo), goal.

Appears in 4 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 目.

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This word is part of lesson 106.