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窺

kuī

peep

Phonosemantic compound. 穴 represents the meaning and 規 represents the sound.

Components
穴 meaning component

穴  Meaning component

xué

  

cave

規 sound component

規  Sound component

guī

  

rules

Evolution

窺 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
窺 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

窥 (窺) 

kuī

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

Most common words with 窺
Freq.
Word
Meaning

偷窥

to peep

窥

to peep

窥视

to peep at

窥探

to snoop

内窥镜

endoscope

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kʷʰe

khjwie

kuī

pry, spy (v.)


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

16

Simplified

窥

Unicode

U+7ABA

Shuowen

“窺，小視也。从穴，規聲。”


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