Fán Kuài chuǎng le jìnlái, chēn mù shì Xiàng Wáng.
Fan Kuai entered, his eyes blazing as he glared at the King of Chu.
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Not used alone in modern Chinese, which uses 瞪 for glaring. It survives in the classical phrase 瞋目 (to open the eyes wide in fury), famous from the Records of the Grand Historian; in Buddhist texts it also writes the anger of 嗔.
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Classical literary only — seen in histories and old prose, not in modern conversation.
