盯
dīng HSK7

rivet gaze upon

盯 dīng
to stare verb
to stare or gaze at; to fix one's eyes or attention on something; to watch attentively

他在盯着那把钥匙看。

tā zài dīng zhe nà bǎ yào​shi kàn.

He's staring at the key.

我希望她别再盯着我了。

wǒ xī​wàng tā bié zài dīng zhe wǒ le.

I wish she'd stop staring at me.

to shadow verb
to follow closely; to keep a close watch on someone to prevent them from leaving or to monitor their actions

我们会盯着你的。

wǒ​men huì dīng zhe nǐ de.

We'll be watching you.

Cross-References

Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,906th most common 41.6 per million
Movie subtitles
1,368th most common 53.4 per million appears in 27% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
69.4 per million appears in 26% of films
Written text
32.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+76EF

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