Chinese Character Wiki

眄

miǎn, miàn

to look askance

Components
目 meaning component

目  Meaning component

mù

  

eye

eye

丏 sound component

丏  Sound component

miǎn

  

parapet

Evolution

眄 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
眄 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

眄  

miǎn

to look askance; looking dull; to ogle at; to squint at

眄  

miàn

to look askance at

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mˤe[n]ʔ

menX

miǎn

look askance


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6853rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+7704

Shuowen

“眄，目偏合也。一曰衺視也。秦語。从目，丏聲。”


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