瞅

chǒu
verb HSK 7-9 #16,932

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 1
Nǐ chǒu chǒu zhè shì shénme?
Take a look, what is this?
HSK 5
Tā chǒu le wǒ yī yǎn.
He glanced at me.

Tips

register
瞅 is dialectal/colloquial, common in northern Chinese. Standard Mandarin equivalents: 看 (to look), 瞧 (to look).

Components

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

Stroke Order

瞅 chǒu