eye

Origin & mnemonic

The eye radical originates from a pictograph depicting a human eye, with two horizontal strokes representing the eyelids and a vertical stroke in the middle representing the pupil. This form appears early in oracle-bone and seal script.

Mnemonic: The glyph resembles an actual eye with horizontal strokes like eyelids and a vertical stroke like the pupil—a direct visual memory hook.

• 眸móu🔊

  pupil (of the eye)

  11 strokes

• 眹zhèn🔊

  pupil

  11 strokes

• 眺tiào🔊

  to gaze into the distance

  11 strokes

• 眽mò🔊

  to gaze

  11 strokes

• 睇dì🔊

  (literary) to cast a sidelong glance

  12 strokes

• 困kùn🔊

  sleepy

  HSK 3

  12 strokes

• 睂méi🔊

  old variant of 眉[mei2]

  12 strokes

• 睃suō🔊

  to throw a glance at; to peer at

  12 strokes

• 睄shào🔊

  (coll.) to glance

  12 strokes

• 睅hàn🔊

  protuberant eyes

  12 strokes

• 睆huǎn🔊

  good-looking

  12 strokes

• 睊juàn🔊

  look

  12 strokes

• 睎xī🔊

  to long for

  12 strokes

• 睐lài🔊

  to glance

  12 strokes

• 睑jiǎn🔊

  eyelid

  12 strokes

• 𥆧rún🔊

  twitch (muscle or eyelid)

  12 strokes

• 睡shuì🔊

  to sleep

  HSK 1

  13 strokes

• 瞄miáo🔊

  to take aim

  13 strokes

• 睹dǔ🔊

  old variant of 睹[du3]

  13 strokes

• 睦mù🔊

  amicable

  13 strokes

• 睫jié🔊

  eyelashes

  13 strokes

• 睨nì🔊

  to look askance at

  13 strokes

• 睒shǎn🔊

  furtively glance

  13 strokes

• 睓tiǎn🔊

  variant of 㥏[tian3]

  13 strokes

• 睖lèng🔊

  to stare blankly

  13 strokes

• 睘qióng🔊

  variant of 瞏[qiong2]

  13 strokes

• 睙liè🔊

  to roll the eyeballs to look

  13 strokes

• 睚yá🔊

  (literary) corner of the eye; canthus

  13 strokes

• 睛jīng🔊

  eye; eyeball

  13 strokes

• 睟suì🔊

  bright eye

  13 strokes

• 睢suī🔊

  to stare

  13 strokes

• 督dū🔊

  (bound form) to supervise

  13 strokes

• 睥pì🔊

  used in 睥睨[pi4 ni4]

  13 strokes

• 睬cǎi🔊

  to pay attention

  13 strokes

• 瞅chǒu🔊

  (dialect) to look at

  HSK 7

  14 strokes

• 睿ruì🔊

  variant of 睿[rui4]

  14 strokes

• 䁖lōu🔊

  to glance at

  14 strokes

• 睯hūn🔊

  gloomy; depressed

  14 strokes

• 睺hóu🔊

  (appears as phonetic ho, especially in words taken from Sanskrit)

  14 strokes

• 睽kuí🔊

  separated

  14 strokes

• 睾gāo🔊

  (bound form) testicle

  14 strokes

• 瞀mào🔊

  indistinct vision

  14 strokes

• 瞍sǒu🔊

  blind

  14 strokes

• 瞎xiā🔊

  blind

  HSK 7

  15 strokes

• 瞒mán🔊

  to conceal from

  HSK 7

  15 strokes

• 瞏qióng🔊

  (literary) to gaze in terror

  15 strokes

• 瞈wěng🔊

  see 瞈矇|瞈蒙[weng3 meng2]

  15 strokes

• 瞋chēn🔊

  (literary) to stare angrily; to glare

  15 strokes