mù
eye
Pictograph of an eye.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
mù
eye; look, see; division, topic; item; section; list; catalogue; table of contents; order (taxonomy); goal; name; title
Component uses
Meaning component in 91 characters (19 verified)
看 眼 眎 眡 省 睏 睛 督 睡 瞧 盼 睦 瞋 瞽 眚 瞢 睘 䀏 𡍬 矇 盯 睁 睜 眠 瞪 盲 瞬 眨 瞎 瞒 瞞 瞄 睹 瞥 瞅 眩 眯 瞇 瞻 眷 眶 睬 瞿 瞩 矚 眺 眸 睫 瞟 瞳 瞰 睑 瞼 睽 睐 睞 眈 瞠 瞌 盹 瞑 睢 瞭 睨 睇 眥 眦 盱 睃 睥 眇 眬 矓 眙 睚 眢 瞀 瞍 眍 瞘 眄 眭 瞓 眳 眵 窅 県 瞵 眽 瞈 瞜
Simplified component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.m(r)[u]k | mjuwk | mù | eye |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 81.2590% of movies
326th most common character in movies
239th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+76EE |
Shuowen | “目，人眼。象形。重童子也。，古文目。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.261-262
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