睦
mù HSK7

friendly

Phonosemantic compound. 目 represents the meaning and 坴 represents the sound.

Components

目
目 Meaning component
mù eye
坴
坴 Sound component
lù a clod of earth

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartmjuwkmr[uk] concord

說文解字

《說文》：“睦，目順也。从目，坴聲。一曰敬和也。，古文眭。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)