目
mok
The eye inside both "goal" and "list"
The picture A single eye fixed on one point and not coming off it. 目 is the gaze you aim on purpose; 耳 is the ear that takes in whatever arrives.
Where the picture shows up in 目
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where the eye lands
이번 달 목표는 열 대입니다.
i-beon dal mok-pyo-neun yeol dae-im-ni-da
This month's target is ten units.
People lifting their heads toward a single number posted on the wall
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why the eye went there
방문 목적을 말씀해 주세요.
bang-mun mok-jeo-geul mal-sseum-hae ju-se-yo
Please state the purpose of your visit.
An officer at passport control raising his eyes over the passport to ask where you are headed
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pulling eyes to one place
여기 잠깐 주목해 주세요.
yeo-gi jam-kkan ju-mo-kae ju-se-yo
Everyone, look over here for a moment.
Scattered gazes all turning toward one person at the sound of a clap
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the line an eye runs down
참석자 목록을 보내 드릴게요.
cham-seok-ja mong-no-geul bo-nae deu-ril-ge-yo
I'll send you the names of the attendees.
An eye traveling down a sheet where names are set out one under another
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one cell the eye picks out
이 항목은 비워 두세요.
i hang-mo-geun bi-wo du-se-yo
Leave this field blank.
On a form, the eye stopping at one box while a finger rests on that row
All of it in one picture
目 is a gaze pinned to one point. The spot it lands on is a goal; the reason it went there is a purpose. Pull many eyes onto one place and that is attention; lay things out in a line so an eye can run down them and that is a list. Each cell the eye separates out of that line is an item.