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目的

mù dì

HSK 2 · word 865 of 3,000

Meaning

• purpose; aim; goal; target; objective

Example sentence

Characters in 目的

• 目 mù eye; an item in a list
• 的 de of; ~'s (possessive particle)

目 eye plus 的. Here 的 is dì, a target — the eye's target is the aim. It is the one common word where 的 is not the possessive.

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