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Radical 109

Chinese character radical

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Radical 109 or radical eye (目部) meaning "eye" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 647 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 105th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

01Evolution

Component of , , , and ; unrelated to , , and . Form 罒 can represent both 目 and

Ideogrammic compound 目 + 丨; unrelated to 真.

02Derived characters

03Sinogram

In isolation it is a Chinese character meaning eye. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a first grade kanji.

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