窥
kuī HSK7

peep

窥 (窺) kuī
peep punctuation
to look secretly through a small opening or from a hidden spot

他忍不住弯下腰，从锁孔向屋内一窥。

tā rěn bù zhù wān​xià yāo, cóng suǒ​kǒng xiàng wū​nèi yī kuī.

He couldn't help bending down to peek into the room through the keyhole.

pry verb
to investigate or observe someone's private affairs inquisitively

这部纪录片让我们得以一窥原始森林的面貌。

zhè bù jì​lù​piàn ràng wǒ​men dé​yǐ yī kuī yuán​shǐ sēn​lín de miàn​mào.

This documentary gives us a glimpse into the primeval forest.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,748th most common 13.8 per million
Movie subtitles
2,542nd most common 8.03 per million appears in 5% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.19 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
2.58 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
窺
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+7AA5

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)