mù
friendly
Phonosemantic compound. 目 represents the meaning and 坴 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 睦
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
harmonious | ||
amicable | ||
to live in harmony | ||
neighborly relations | ||
to be at odds |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mr[uk] | mjuwk | mù | concord |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.5057% of movies
3195th most common character in movies
3019th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+7766 |
Shuowen | “睦，目順也。从目，坴聲。一曰敬和也。，古文眭。” |
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