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 目 plus phonetic 台.
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Mostly a place-name character; the gazing sense is classical and literary only.
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 盯 and 瞪.
