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Mythic Mandarin

盯 (dīng): meaning and stroke order

盯 (dīng) means to watch attentively, to fix one's attention on, to stare at, to gaze at.

盯

Simplified
盯
Traditional
盯 (same form)
Pinyin
dīng

Stroke order of 盯

盯

  • dīng to watch attentively; to fix one's attention on
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 盯

  1. dīng
    • to watch attentively
    • to fix one's attention on
    • to stare at
    • to gaze at

Radical and structure

盯
Radical 目 (Kangxi radical 109) · 7 strokes · 目 on the left, 丁 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

盯 in our stories

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  • 他盯着那张纸看了很久，拿起手机，翻到那个很久没联系的号码，却迟迟没有按下去。

    tā dīng zhe nà zhāng zhǐ kàn le hěn jiǔ ná qǐ shǒujī fān dào nà gè hěn jiǔ méi liánxì de hàomǎ què chíchí méiyǒu àn xiàqu

    He stared at it for a long time, picked up his phone and scrolled to the number he hadn't called in ages, but kept holding back from pressing it.

    From the story The day he rang the bell HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 盯

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).