眔

dà
conjunction

Meanings

  1. 1 (archaic) and; together with
  2. 2 (archaic) for the gaze to reach something

Examples

HSK 6
Tā de mùguāng wàng xiàng yuǎnfāng.
His gaze reached far into the distance.

Tips

history
眔 is archaic and not used independently in modern Chinese. It pictures an eye 目 with streaming tears and survives mainly as a building block inside characters such as 还's traditional form and 怀's older relatives; you meet it only in classical glosses and etymology notes.
register
Archaic and lexicographic only. 眔 never appears as a standalone word in modern Chinese.

Components

radical
目 mù
eye
The 目 'eye' on top is the indexing radical and the heart of the picture: a watching eye whose gaze 'reaches' its object.
semantic
氺 shuǐ
water; tears
The water element below the eye reads as tears streaming down, reinforcing the image of an eye fixed on something far off.

Stroke Order

眔 dà