Radical 109

目
108 ⽫ ◄	109	► ⽭ 110
Pinyin :	mù (= eye)
Zhuyin :	ㄇ ㄨ ˋ
Hiragana :	め me
Kanji :	目 me (= eye)
Hangul :	눈 now
Sinocorean :	목 mok
Codepoint :	U + 76EE
Stroke sequence :

Radical 109 , meaning " eye ", is one of 23 of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese writing that are written with five strokes.

With 116 combinations of characters in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary , there are many characters that can be found under this radical in the lexicon.

The character developed from the pictorial representation of a human eye. Initially drawn from the front, the pupil in the middle, the eye was later turned sideways and with the use of the writing brush the characters became more angular and thus lost their clarity. Most of the time, the radical functions as a bearer of meaning in the compound sign and then places it in the context of seeing and eye, for example in 眉 (= eyebrow), 眶 (= eye socket), 睁 (= open eyes), 盲 (= blind), 睹(= see, perceive), 眯 (= blink) and 瞪 (= stare). The components 目 (= eye) and 木 (= tree) are found in 相 (= appearance). This goes back to a sentence in the Book of Changes : "On earth we mainly see trees". The eye (目) and tree (木) came together to form the combined sign 相 (xiang), which originally meant seeing.

Character combinations ruled by radical 109

Eye of an asian girl

Strokes	character
+ 00	目
+ 02	盯
+ 03	盰 盱 盲 盳 直 盵
+ 04	盶 盷 相 盹 盺 盻 盼 盽 盾 盿 眀 省 眂 眃 眄 眅 眆 眆 眇 眈 眉 眊 看 県 眍
+ 05	眎 眏 眐 眑 眒 眓 眔 眕 眖 眗 眘 眙 眚 眛 眜 眝 眞 真 眠 眡 眢 眣 眤 眥 眦 眦 眧 眨 眩 眪 眫 眬 眿
+ 06	眭 眮 眯 眰 眱 眲 眳 眴 眵 眶 眷 眸 眹 眺 眻 眼 眽 眾
+ 07	着 睁 睂 睃 睄 睅 睆 睇 睈 睉 睊 睋 睌 睍 睎 睏 睐 睑
+ 08	睒 睓 睔 睕 睖 睗 睘 睙 睚 睛 睜 睝 睞 睟 睠 睡 睢 督 睤 睥 睦 睧 睨 睩 睪 睫 睬 睭
+ 09	煛 睮 睯 睰 睱 睲 睳 睴 睵 睶 睸 睹 睺 睻 睼 睽 睾 睿 瞀 瞁 瞂 瞃 瞄 瞅 瞆
+10	瞇 瞈 瞉 瞊 瞋 瞌 瞍 瞎 瞏 瞐 瞑 瞒 瞓
+11	瞔 瞕 瞖 瞗 瞘 瞙 瞚 瞛 瞜 瞝 瞞 瞟 瞠 瞡 瞢 瞣
+12	瞤 瞥 瞦 瞧 瞨 瞩 瞪 瞫 瞬 瞭 瞮 瞯 瞰 瞱 瞲 瞳 瞴 瞵 瞶 瞷
+13	瞸 瞹 瞺 瞻 瞼 瞽 瞾 瞿 矀 矁 矂
+14	矃 矄 矅 矆 矇 矈 矉 矊
+15	矋 矌 矍 矎 矏
+16	矐 矑 矒 矓
+18	矔
+19	睷 矕 矗
+20	矘 矙
+21	矖 矚

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , the radical 109 is coded under the code point number 12.140 (U + 2F6C).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 41 .
• Cecilia Lindqvist : A world of signs - about the Chinese and their writing . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-426-26482-X , p. 29 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 109  - Graphic representations of Radikal 109

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 109 on page 96