目
eye; class; look; insight; experience; care; favor
5 strokes. Taught in grade 1. Newspaper frequency rank 76.
Readings
- め (kun reading): 目 (め) eye; 目指す (めざす) to aim at (for, to do, to become)
- モク (on reading): 目的 (もくてき) purpose; 目標 (もくひょう) goal
- ま (kun reading): 目の当たり (まのあたり) before one's eyes; 目見 (まみ) look
- ボク (on reading): 面目 (めんぼく) face; 不面目 (ふめんぼく) shame
- Read as a whole word: 真面目くさる (まじめくさる) to become extremely serious (in attitude)
Components
- 目 radical eye
Kanji containing 目
- 自 oneself
- 見 see
- 相 inter-
- 県 prefecture
- 直 straightaway
- 算 calculate
- 着 don
- 督 coach
- 省 government ministry
- 具 tool
- 看 watch over
- 瞬 wink
- 眠 sleep
- 冒 risk
- 盾 shield
- 眼 eyeball
- 眺 stare
- 睡 drowsy
- 盲 blind
- 貝 shellfish
- 睦 intimate
- 瞳 pupil (of eye)
- 眉 eyebrow
- 瞑 sleep
- 眞 truth
- 泪 tears
- 苜 clover
- 盻 glare at
- 眄 looking askance
- 眇 minuteness
- 眈 watch intently
- 眛 dark
- 眤 glance at
- 眩 faint
- 眥 outside the corner of the eye
- 眦 corner of the eyes
- 眷 look around
- 眸 pupil of the eye
- 睇 looking askance at
- 睚 glare
- 睛 pupil of the eye
- 睥 glare at
- 睨 glaring at
- 睫 eyelashes
- 鼎 three legged kettle
- 夐 far
- 睹 look at
- 睿 intelligence
- 瞋 be angry
- 瞎 blind eye
- 瞞 deception
- 瞠 stare intently
- 瞥 glance at
- 瞭 clear
- 瞰 look
- 瞶 see everything
- 闃 quiet
- 瞹 hidden
- 瞻 look at
- 瞼 eyelids
And 4 more.
Words using 目
- 目 (め) eye
- 目指す (めざす) to aim at (for, to do, to become)
- 丁目 (ちょうめ) nth district of a town
- 代目 (だいめ) nth generation
- 番目 (ばんめ) the nth ...
- 目的 (もくてき) purpose
- 目標 (もくひょう) goal
- 注目 (ちゅうもく) notice
- 項目 (こうもく) item
- 目撃 (もくげき) witnessing
- 目の当たり (まのあたり) before one's eyes
- 目見 (まみ) look
- 目深 (まぶか) (wearing) low over one's eyes
- 目縁 (まぶち) eyelid margin
- 目交い (まなかい) between one's eyes
- 面目 (めんぼく) face
- 不面目 (ふめんぼく) shame
- 面目ない (めんぼくない) ashamed
- 面目を施す (めんぼくをほどこす) to get credit
- 面目次第 (めんぼくしだい) face
- 真面目くさる (まじめくさる) to become extremely serious (in attitude)
- 赤目 (あかべ) facial gesture of pulling one's eyelid down and sticking out one's tongue
- 翼指竜亜目 (よくしりゅうるい) Pterodactyloidea
1177 words in all.