眼 Eyeball

Radical Combination

• 目

  Eye
• 艮

  Root

Meaning

Primary

Eyeball

Mnemonic

The eye's root is the eyeball.

Hints

Go ahead and feel your eyeballs moving around in your head. Your eyes aren't just the part on the surface, they're the whole balls in there, attached at the root.

Readings

On’yomi

がん

Kun’yomi

め

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

You know who has some pretty good eyeballs? Gandhi (がん). Gandhi used his eyes to see the oppression around him and decided to do something about it. But it's all thanks to his eyeballs.

Hints

Look at Gandhi’s eyeball with your eyeball. It's pretty remarkable.