Chinese Character Wiki

睇

dì

look at

Components
目 meaning component

目  Meaning component

mù

  

eye

eye

弟 sound component

弟  Sound component

dì, tì

  

younger brother

Evolution

睇 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
睇 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

睇  

dì

look at, glance at; stare at; to look down upon (classical); to see; to look at (Cantonese); Mandarin equivalent: 看[kàn]

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*lˤəj-s

dejH

dì

look at

*l̥ˤ[ə]j (~ *l̥ˤ[ə]jʔ)

thej

tī

look at


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5521st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+7747

Shuowen

“睇，目小視也。从目，弟聲。南楚謂眄曰睇。”


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