to look from side to side

Depicts a pair of eyes looking from side to side.

Components
目 iconic component

  Iconic component

  

eye

Depicts an eye.

目 iconic component

  Iconic component

  

eye

Depicts another eye.

Evolution

䀠 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
䀠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
䀠 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

a Chinese family name, the timid look of a bird; (of birds) to look around, nervous (same as ) shocked or scared

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)

Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ʷ(r)a-s

kjuH

look right and left


Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+4020

Shuowen

“,左右視也。从二目。讀若拘,又若良士瞿瞿。”
Sources

季旭昇 《說文新證》 p.270



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