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名目

míng mù

2-character word

What 名目 means

1. name
2. designation
3. item
4. rubric
5. (formal usage) fame

The characters in 名目

• 名míngname; noun (part of speech); place (e.g. among winners)
• 目mùeye; (literary) to look; to regard; eye (of a net); mesh

Words starting with 名目

• 名目繁多míng mù fán duōnames of many kinds (idiom); items of every description

Words containing 名目

• 巧立名目qiǎo lì míng mùto fabricate excuses (idiom); to concoct various items (e.g. to pad an expense account)

Sounds the same

Read míng mù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 瞑目to close one's eyes; (fig.) to be contented at the time of one's death…