眈
dān

gloat

Phonosemantic compound. 目 represents the meaning and 冘 represents the sound.

Components

目
目 Meaning component
mù eye
冘
冘 Sound component
yín, yóu to move on

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangʔl'uːm
ʔl'uːmʔ
l'uːm

說文解字

視近而志遠。从目冘聲。《易》曰:“虎視眈眈。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica