目
め
hepburn me
eye
Part of speech · noun
Pattern visualization
Examples
- 目を閉じてください。Please close your eyes.
- 黒い目がきれいです。Black eyes are beautiful.
Collocations
目が痛い (eye hurts)目を閉じる (close eyes)目を開ける (open eyes)目が覚める (wake up — "eyes wake")目が悪い (bad eyesight)
Mnemonic
目 me-eye — single mora. The slug me-eye (batch 2) disambiguates from many homophones. Idiom 目が覚める ("eyes wake") = "to wake up". The kanji 目 also marks ordinal position: 一つ目 hitotsu-me ("first one"). Onyomi もく (moku) in 目的 mokuteki (purpose).
Quick check
"I woke up" — idiom in Japanese?