The sniper hid in a high position, waiting for the right moment.
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usage
狙 alone is literary. In modern usage it most commonly appears in compounds: 狙击 (to snipe) and 狙击手 (sniper). The standalone character is rarely used in everyday speech.
犭 is the left-side beast radical (compressed 犬). It indexes 狙 in the wild-animal family alongside 猫 (cat), 狼 (wolf), 狐 (fox). Originally 狙 named a monkey or ape lying in ambush; the predator-stalker flavour survives in the modern sense of sniping (狙击) — lying in wait.
且 (qiě) gives the sound — initial preserved, rime drifted from -iě to -ū with tone shift to first tone (jū). Same phonetic powers 组 (group), 祖 (ancestor), 助 (help), 阻 (block) — all share the zǔ/zū rhyme cluster. Pure sound-marker, no semantic role.
