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mù

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Variant of 睦. Phonosemantic compound. 目 represents the meaning and 圥 represents the sound.

Components

圥
圥 Sound component
lù mushroom
目
目 Meaning component
mù eye
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 目 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

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

Component uses

Sound (2)

𧸇𧶠

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

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)