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虎视眈眈
hǔ​shì​dān​dān

eyeing greedily

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
虎视眈眈 (虎視眈眈) hǔ​shì​dān​dān
eyeing greedily idiom
To watch something or someone with predatory intent or covetousness, like a tiger watching its prey.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
1.07 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
1.60 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
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