目

eye; ordinal marker

Builds 84 distinct compound words — ranked #60 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: モク・ボク
訓 kun: め・ま

The eye, and by extension a point of view — 目的 a purpose, 注目 attention. Attached to a number it makes an ordinal: 三番目 the third.

The ten most common compounds built on 目. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

84compounds built

1,476times those words occur

#37by productivity alone

#109by how often it turns up

Where 目 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 目. Each one opens its own map.

一one一目#2 出come out; put outお目出度う#4 的-ic, -ish; target目的#33 度degree; occasionお目出度う#84 面face; surface; aspect真面目#95

Words built on 目

目め394 uses

駄目だめ183 uses

目的もくてき154 uses

目標もくひょう53 uses

真面目まじめ37 uses

一目ひとめ35 uses

お目出度う33 uses

目指すめざす32 uses

目覚めるめざめる31 uses

科目かもく30 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.