look at

Components

Meaning component
eye

eye

Sound component
dì, di younger brother

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdejHlˤəj-slook at
thejl̥ ˤ[ə]j
(~ *l̥ ˤ[ə]jʔ)
look at
Zhengzhangtʰiːl
diːls
Unicodedhèi

說文解字

目小視也。从目弟聲。南楚謂眄曰睇。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica