Mullein is word, pronounced: mù ěr, meaning: also called cloud ear, black fungus. A kind of fungus. Slightly human ear-shaped, brown. Translucent when wet, leathery when dry. Born on dead tree trunks, edible.

Eye and ear are not words and have no practical meaning. The meanings of the single characters for eye and ear are as follows:

I. Eye Pinyin: mù?

Interpretation:

1. Eyes: There is ~*** to see. The calendar is in ~.

2. mesh; hole: eighty ~ sieves. There are as many as a hundred ~ in a square inch of net.

3. to see: ~ as a miracle.

4. A small item subdivided from a larger one: item ~. Fine ~.

5. In biology, organisms of the same order are divided into groups according to their similar characteristics, and each group is called an order, e.g., the bird order is divided into the order of geese, chickens, and cranes, etc., and the pine and cypress order is divided into the order of ginkgoes and cypresses. Below the order is the family.

6. Catalog: book ~. Medicine ~. Drama ~.

7. Name: title ~. Name ~.

8. The blank intersections enclosed in a game of Go; a point is an eye: the Chinese player won by only one and a half points.

9. Surname.

2. Ear pinyin: ěr?

Definitions:

1. ear: ~ deaf and blind. ~ to hear and see.

2. Something shaped like an ear: wooden ~. Silver ~.

3. Positioned on either side: ~ room. ~ door.

4. surname.

5. just; just: think of course ~. The skill stops here ~.

Handwriting Evolution:

Related Groupings:

1. ear and eye

[ěr mù]?

Ears and eyes: cover up people ~ (a metaphor for deceiving others with falsehoods).

2. entry

[tiáo mù]?

(statute, treaty, charter, etc.) a breakdown by content.

3. head

[tóu mù]?

The person at the head of certain groups (mostly derogatory): big ~. Little ~.

4. eyed

[mù sòng]?

Eyes on the departing person or the car or boat carrying the person, etc.: ~ loved ones far away.

5. title

[tí mù]?

Words and phrases that summarize the content of a poem or lecture.