Jisho

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5 strokes
Radical:
eye
Parts:
eye, class, look, insight, experience, care, favor
Kun:
-めま-
On:
モクボク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N4
76 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 目 【モク】 order, item (of a budget revision, etc.), counter for go pieces, counter for surrounded positions
  • 目撃 【モクゲキ】 witnessing, observing, sighting
  • 着目 【チャクモク】 attention, giving one's attention, focusing
  • 細目 【サイモク】 particulars, details, specified items
  • 耳目 【ジモク】 eyes and ears, seeing and hearing, one's attention, one's interest
  • 不面目 【フメンボク】 shame, disgrace

Kun reading compounds

  • 目 【め】 eye, eyeball, eyesight, sight, vision, look, stare, gaze, glance, notice, attention, observation, eyes (of the world, public, etc.), an experience, viewpoint, discrimination, discernment, judgement, eye (e.g. for quality), (an) appearance, chance (of success), possibility (of a good result), spacing (between crossed strands of a net, mesh, etc.), opening, stitch, texture, weave, grain (of wood, paper), eye (of a storm, needle, etc.), intersection (on a go board), square (on a chessboard), dot (on a dice), pip, rolled number, graduation, division (of a scale), tooth (of a saw, comb, etc.), ordinal number suffix, somewhat, -ish, point (e.g. of change)
  • 目当て 【めあて】 mark, guide, landmark, purpose, aim, goal, intention, end, sight (on a firearm)
  • 蛇の目 【じゃのめ】 bull's-eye (pattern), double ring (pattern), umbrella with bull's-eye pattern
  • 負い目 【おいめ】 (feeling of) indebtedness, feeling obliged

Readings

Japanese names:
さかん、 さがん、 さっか、 さつか
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mu4
Korean:
mog

Spanish

  • ojo
  • mirada
  • percepción

Portuguese

  • olho
  • classe
  • olhar
  • visão
  • experiência
  • atenção
  • favor

French

  • oeil
  • regard
  • aperçu
  • numérateur ordinal
  • expérience
  • classe
  • faveur
  • pièce (Go)
25 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
30 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
72 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
65 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3127 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
22 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
75 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
191 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.11 Japanese for Busy People
55 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
55 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
168 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1376 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3777 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1927 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2619 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
15 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
23105 Morohashi
3043 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3906 New Nelson (John Haig)
15 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
15 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
91 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
48 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3979 2001 Kanji
5c0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-2 SKIP code
4-5-1 SKIP code
6010.1 Four corner code
1-44-60 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
76ee Unicode hex code

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 垢衣 【コウイ】 dirty clothes, grimy clothes
  • 垢膩 【コウジ】 dirt and grease, filth, grime
  • 恥垢 【チコウ】 smegma
  • 膣垢 【チツコウ】 vaginal smear
  • 垢 【ク】 klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering)
  • 垢膩 【コウジ】 dirt and grease, filth, grime
  • 無垢 【ムク】 pure, innocent, spotless, immaculate, unspoiled, pure, unmixed, unadulterated, long kimono made from the same plain-coloured cloth
  • 純粋無垢 【ジュンスイムク】 pure and innocent, immaculate

Kun reading compounds

  • 垢 【あか】 dirt, filth, grime
  • 垢 【アカ】 account (e.g. for an online service)
  • 廃垢 【はいアカ】 abandoned account (on social media, etc.), unused account, old account
  • 鍵垢 【かぎアカ】 private account (on social media, esp. Twitter), account that can only be viewed by approved followers

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gou4
Korean:
gu

Spanish

Portuguese

French

  • crasse
  • saleté
  • cérumen
1076 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
418 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1879 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5058 Morohashi
1008 New Nelson (John Haig)
2187 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2302 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1477 2001 Kanji
3b6.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-6 SKIP code
4216.1 Four corner code
1-25-04 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
57a2 Unicode hex code