Onyomi: ボク, モク · Kunyomi: -め, ま-, め · Meanings: care, class, experience, eye, favor, insight, look
Kanji for care, class, experience, eye, favor
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The kanji 目 is a simple pictograph of an eye. The ancient form clearly showed the shape of an eye with the pupil in the center. It represents vision, seeing, and observation. Over time, it also came to mean order, item, or point, reflecting how we “see” and organize things in sequence.
A picture of an eye — 目 means eye, vision, or viewpoint.
Imagine a clear, open eye watching the world — that’s 目, the kanji for seeing and observing.
| Word | Reading | Meaning | Meta |
|---|---|---|---|
| 目 | め | eye, eyeball | common JLPT-N5 Noun |
| 目 | もく | order | Noun |
| 目的 | もくてき | purpose, goal, aim, objective, intention | common JLPT-N3 Noun |
| 目標 | もくひょう | goal, target, aim, objective | common JLPT-N3 Noun |
| 目印 | めじるし | mark (for quick identification or recognition), sign | common JLPT-N2 Noun |
| 目指す | めざす | to aim at (for, to do, to become), to try for, to have an eye on | common JLPT-N2 Godan verb with 'su' ending, Transitive verb |
| 目立つ | めだつ | to be conspicuous, to stand out | common JLPT-N2 Godan verb with 'tsu' ending, Intransitive verb |
| 目覚まし | めざまし | alarm clock | common JLPT-N2 Noun |
| 滅茶苦茶 | めちゃくちゃ | absurd, unreasonable, nonsensical, preposterous, incoherent | common JLPT-N2 JLPT-N1 Na-adjective (keiyodoshi), Noun |
| 眩暈 | めまい | dizziness, giddiness, vertigo | common JLPT-N2 JLPT-N1 Noun |