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Meanings

  1. 1 used in the place name 盱眙 (Xuyi County, Jiangsu)
  2. 2 (classical) to gaze; to stare (read chì)

Examples

Zhàn zài shāndǐng, tā gǎndào xīnkuàng-shényí.
Standing on the mountaintop, his mind felt utterly refreshed.

Tips

history
Not used independently in modern Chinese; in the place name 盱眙 (a county in Jiangsu, famous for crayfish) it reads yí, while a separate classical reading chì meant to stare or gaze in alarm. It is the eye radical plus phonetic .
register
Mostly a place-name character; the gazing sense is classical and literary only.

Components

radical
eye
The eye radical on the left, a pictograph of an eye. It carried the original "to gaze" sense, grouping the character with eye-action graphs like and .
phonetic
tái
platform; phonetic
The right side carries the sound, read yí in the place name. The same phonetic gives the reading of and ; here it lends pronunciation only.

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