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

Components

叔
叔 Sound component
目
目 Meaning component

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangʔl'uːwɢ

說文解字

《說文》：“督，察也。一曰目痛也。从目，叔聲。”

Sources

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