kuī

peep

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
穴 meaning component

  Meaning component

xué

  

cave

规 sound component

  Sound component

guī

  

rules

Evolution

窥 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
窥 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
窥 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

kuī

peep, watch, spy on, pry; to peep; to pry into

() 

kuī

variant of |[kuī]

Most common words with 窥
Freq.
Word
Meaning

偷窥

to peep

to peep

窥视

to peep at

窥探

to snoop

内窥镜

endoscope

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.7733% of movies

2541st most common character in movies

2748th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Traditional

Unicode

U+7AA5


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