chǒu
verb HSK 7-9 #16,932

Meanings

  1. 1 to look at
  2. 2 to glance at (dialect)

Examples

Tā chǒu le wǒ yīyǎn.
He glanced at me.
Nǐ chǒu chǒu zhè shì shénme?
Take a look, what is this?

Tips

register
is dialectal/colloquial, common in northern Chinese. Standard Mandarin equivalents: (kàn, to look), (qiáo, to look).

Components

radical
eye
Left-side eye radical — originally a pictograph of an eye, rotated upright into its modern boxed form. Indexes in the visual-action family with to look, to open the eyes, to peek. is colloquial northern Mandarin for 'to glance, take a quick look,' fronted by this eye.
phonetic
qiū
autumn (here phonetic)
Right supplies the sound — qiū shifts to chǒu through a regular q-/ch- alternation in this phonetic family ( qiú, qiū). The 'autumn' meaning of doesn't bleed into ; treat it strictly as a sound clue. Tone shifts from level 1 to dipping 3.

Stroke Order

chǒu