piē

take fleeting glance at

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
目 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

eye

敝 sound component

  Sound component

  

worn out

Evolution

瞥 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
瞥 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

piē

take fleeting glance at; to shoot a glance; glance; to appear in a flash

Most common words with 瞥
Freq.
Word
Meaning

glance

瞥见

to glimpse

一瞥

glance

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.2334% of movies

3357th most common character in movies

2706th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+77A5

Shuowen

“瞥,過目也。又目翳也。从目,敝聲。一曰財見也。”


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