dān

gloat

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
目 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

eye

冘 sound component

  Sound component

yínyóu

  

to move on

Evolution

眈 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
眈 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

dān

gloat, stare at; to delay, to loiter, to hinder; gaze intently

Most common words with 眈
Freq.
Word
Meaning

虎视眈眈

to eye covetously

gaze intently

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3979th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+7708

Shuowen

“眈,視近而志遠。从目,冘聲。《易》曰:‘虎視眈眈。’”


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