Learn 目
eye
Recognize 目, know its sound, and learn one way to use it.
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The Bridge Page
1 min illustrated story · A little help remembering 目
In a bookshop, Alex opened a thick book about bridges. He wanted to find a photograph of a narrow wooden bridge he had seen on the back cover. He started at the first page and turned each page carefully. Lin browsed the shelf beside him.
There were stone bridges, metal bridges, and a long chapter with no photographs at all. Alex held his place with one finger. “It must be farther on,” he said. Lin put her own book back and came over to look.
She turned to the table of contents near the front. A section about wooden bridges had its own page number. Alex found that page, then turned one more. There was the photograph: a slim bridge crossing a stream between two fields.
He looked from the photograph to the thick block of pages he had not needed to search. “That was quicker,” he said. Lin returned to her shelf. Alex went back to the beginning of the wooden bridge section. Now he wanted to read it, rather than hurry through it.
One way to use 目.
目 means eye, especially in written language and compounds. In everyday Mandarin, 眼睛 is the usual word for eyes. Learn 目录 as the whole word meaning table of contents, not as “eye list.” Its traditional form is 目錄.
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