眺
tiào

look at

Phonosemantic compound. 目 represents the meaning and 兆 represents the sound.

Components

目
目 Meaning component
mù eye
兆
兆 Sound component
zhào omen

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartthewHl̥ ˤew-slook from a distance
Zhengzhangl̥ʰeːws
Unicodetèu

說文解字

目不正也。从目兆聲。

Sources

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