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Clara Parker Luce
Clara Parker Luce
5 years ago

The eye radical underneath the three lines looks like someone reading a bunch of letters or watching a show.

Guido Jacubowicz
Guido Jacubowicz
4 years ago

Reminds me of “to have” (Yǒu), but when I write it, I have to “look” at the lines to see the difference.

Derek Eng
Derek Eng
4 years ago

the bottom of the character has an eye so I remember that it’s for watching/seeing

Mahrukh Riaz
Mahrukh Riaz
3 years ago

目 radical means eye, so connection to looking

Roman Terekh
Roman Terekh
3 years ago

The radical on the bottom acts as an eye and the three strokes above act as eyebrows.

Dinobi Ibegbu
Dinobi Ibegbu
2 years ago

It looks like lashes on top of an eye, which you use ‘to look’.

Danial Tajwer
Danial Tajwer
2 years ago

The top part of the character looks like the character for hand/手, and if you put your hand your hand over your eye/目, then that helps you narrow your gaze and focus on whatever you’re LOOKING at

Ashot Badalyan
Ashot Badalyan
2 years ago

1. The under part is the “eye” character
2. The whole character looks like an eye with lashes
Which reminds me that it means read or look.

Jinu Shim
Jinu Shim
2 years ago

The eye radical is under the three lines which reminds me of someone looking around for something.

Tu Quynh Vuu
Tu Quynh Vuu
2 years ago

The character looks like there are an eyebrow, eyelid, and eyelashes, on top of the eye.

Crystal Lin
Crystal Lin
2 years ago

looks like a hand holding above the eyes to cover it from the sun to see better

Margaret
Margaret
1 year ago

looks like an eye with the hand over, so it’s to look

Tinh Ngo
Tinh Ngo
1 year ago

looks like eye radical with eyelashes (3 lines) -> look

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NYU Abu Dhabi
Eva Vang
Eva Vang
1 year ago

I see the eye radical and the strokes above it look like eye lashes to me, hence to see

Deron Nguyen
Deron Nguyen
1 year ago

Looks like a theatre screen, you can watch

Samira Salamova
Samira Salamova
6 months ago

looks like an eye with very long lashes

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NYU Shanghai
Brenna
Brenna
6 months ago

It might be cool for us to imagine the top three lines on top of the eye radical as a contact lens that cover the eye character. After multiple layers of contact lens, you reach the actual eye.

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NYU Shanghai
Alim
Alim
6 months ago

So basically you can relate that to hand which is holding Telescope, the hand is the top part and the bottom is “telescope” which is actually eye radical

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NYU Shanghai
Tristan Wong
Tristan Wong
6 months ago

You need your eyes to look.

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NYU Shanghai
Nurbol Ibrai
Nurbol Ibrai
6 months ago

It looks like when you hold your hand over your eyes to look on sunny days.

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NYU Shanghai
If other, please specify:
It looks like you're holding your hand over your eyes.
chuge
chuge
6 months ago

the eye radical and the 3 structure looks like book with many pages

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NYU Shanghai
Sagrario
Sagrario
1 month ago

It looks like a little mountain where in the top you can see everything and at the end (the box) its like the final of the mountain.