Eye

N5 · 5 stroke · 14 kanji

A rectangle with two horizontal bars inside — an eye drawn from the front, with the iris and pupil. 目 is sight itself.

Draw a rectangle. Add two horizontal bars inside. You have drawn an eye — the outline, the iris, the pupil. 目 is one of the oldest pictographic kanji: it looks exactly like what it means. It contributes the concept of SEEING and VISION to every kanji it enters.

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Kanji using this radical
2 kanji
See / Look
み・る · けん
Mutual / Each other
あい · そう

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