dān​dān

glaring

dān, chěn gloat

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
eye
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