Chinese Character Wiki

睞

lài

squint at

Phonosemantic compound. 目 represents the meaning and 來 represents the sound.

Components
目 meaning component

目  Meaning component

mù

  

eye

來 sound component

來  Sound component

lái

  

come

Evolution

睞 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
睞 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

睐 (睞) 

lài

squint at; sidelong glance; to glance; to look askance at

Most common words with 睞
Freq.
Word
Meaning

青睐

favor

睐

to glance

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3969th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

睐

Unicode

U+775E

Shuowen

“睞，目童子不正也。从目，來聲。”


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