窥望 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

kuī peep Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 穴 represents the meaning and 规 represents the sound. Simplified form of 窺.

Components

穴 Meaning component

xué, jué cave

规 Sound component

guī rules

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode

wàng, wang to look at

Pictograph of a person standing up (𡈼) and gazing at the moon (月). 亡 is a sound component.

Components

亡 Sound component

wáng death

月 Iconic component

yuè, yue moon

𡈼 Iconic component

tǐng, tíng, zhēng stand upright

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	mjang	maŋ	look at from a distance
	mjangH	maŋ-s	look at from a distance

說文解字

《說文》：“望，出亡在外，望其還也。从亡，朢省聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

peep Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 穴 represents the meaning and 規 represents the sound.

Components

穴 Meaning component

xué, jué cave

規 Sound component

guī rules

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	khjwie	kʷʰe	pry, spy (v.)
Zhengzhang		kʰʷel
Unicode	kiuɛ

說文解字

小視也。从穴規聲。

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

窥 kuī peep Simplified

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望 wàng, wang to look at

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說文解字

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窺 peep Traditional

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Character Evolution

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說文解字

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kuī peep Simplified

wàng, wang to look at

peep Traditional