Radicals › #109 目
目
目 — the “eye” radical
seeing — also written sideways 罒 21 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.
Kanji using the 目 radical (21)
相inter-, mutual目eye, class県prefecture直straightaway, honesty真true, reality着don, arrive督coach, command省government ministry, conserve看watch over, see瞬wink, blink眠sleep, die盾shield, escutcheon眼eyeball眺stare, watch睡drowsy, sleep盲blind, blind man睦intimate, friendly瞳pupil (of eye)眉eyebrow眸pupil of the eye瞭clear
Radicals (部首, bushu) are the shared building blocks of kanji, used to sort them in every dictionary. Learn the common ones and new kanji stop looking random.
