睦

mù
adjective #35,694

Meanings

  1. 1 amicable
  2. 2 harmonious
  3. 3 on good terms

Examples

HSK 1
Tāmen yìjiārén fēicháng hémù.
Their whole family is very harmonious.
HSK 7-9
Línlǐ zhījiān yīnggāi hémù xiāngchǔ.
Neighbors should get along harmoniously.

Tips

usage
睦 rarely stands alone in modern Chinese - you'll almost always see it in compounds like 和睦 (harmonious), 睦邻 (good-neighborly), or 亲睦 (close and friendly). Learn it through these pairings.

Components

radical
目 mù
eye
目 on the left is the eye radical, a vertical pictograph of an eye. It tags 睦 as a looking-related word; harmonious eyes that meet without flinching mark the friendly gaze 睦 names. Compare 看 (watch) and 眼 (eye).
phonetic
坴 lù
lump of earth; clod
坴 supplies a phonetic that has drifted from lù to mù, the two sharing closely related Old-Chinese onsets. The same phonetic appears in 陆 (land) and the original 睦 keeps the warm-earth flavor of solid ground that people stand on together.

Stroke Order

睦 mù