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eye

On-Yomi: モク、ボク — Kun-Yomi: め、-め、ま-

Elements:

eye

Heisig story:

Here again, if we round out the corners of this kanji and curve the middle strokes upwards and downwards respectively, we get something resembling an eye.

Heisig comment:

* As a primitive, the kanji keeps its sense of eye, or more specifically, an eyeball. When placed in the surroundings of a complex kanji, the primitive will sometimes be turned on its side.

Koohii stories:

1) [d3kuma] 13-7-2009(223): 目 _ 目 .

2) [kylemanning] 22-11-2007(92): There are 3 sections. Imagine the outer two being the whites of your eye. The middle is the pupil. Fill it in with imaginary color.

3) [xiteru] 9-10-2007(20): This one comes from an ancient character that was an eye. It is an eye rotated in 90 degree but got squared (think about anime style eyes).

4) [TakaTahuNuva] 29-3-2009(12): 目 _ 目 .

5) [MechHawk] 30-9-2009(6): ( 目 _ 目 ).

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