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盱

xū
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 (classical) to open the eyes wide; to stare
  2. 2 (classical) to look around anxiously

Examples

HSK 4
盱眙是江苏的一个县。
Xūyí shì Jiāngsū de yī gè xiàn.
The place name Xuyi keeps this old character alive in everyday use.

Tips

history
No standalone use in modern Chinese; it survives in the literary phrase 盱衡 (to take a wide survey) and in the place name 盱眙. It is the eye radical 目 plus phonetic 于.
register
Classical and literary only; met in old phrases and a place name, not in everyday speech.

Components

radical
目 mù
eye
The eye radical on the left, a pictograph of an eye. It supplies the meaning, fixing the word as an action of the eyes, the same family as 看 and 睁.
phonetic
于 yú
in; at
The right side carries the sound, drifted to xū. The same phonetic gives the reading of 吁 and 纡; here it lends pronunciation only.

Stroke Order

盱 xū