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CHINESE CHARACTER
- Numbered pinyin
- deng4
- English meanings
- open wide, glom, stare, open (one's eyes) wide, stare at, glower, open one's eyes wide, glare
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BUILDING BLOCKS
Structure & components
Left–right structure
Left–right arrangement: left 目; right 登.
Meaning & sound clues
目 is identified as the meaning component, associated with “eye”.
登 is identified as the sound component (dēng). Its pronunciation may differ from the modern pronunciation of 瞪.
This breakdown describes the written shape. A component's meaning does not always explain the meaning of the whole character.
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Characters with the same pinyin, regardless of tone.
stool
lamp
lamp; light
to scale (a height)
etc
to step on
Example sentences
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Related words
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- 目瞪口呆