Definitions
to stare blankly; to glare
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The character 睖 (lèng) is a phono-semantic compound whose primary meaning is the action of staring blankly, glaring, or looking straight ahead with a fixed gaze. Structurally, it combines the semantic radical 目 (mù), which ties it to the eye, visual actions, and ocular states, and the phonetic component 夌 (líng), which indicates its pronunciation. In historical and literary usage, 睖 was deployed to portray human expressions of shock, anger, or a stunned mental state, consistently focusing on physical facial reactions and visual behaviors without accumulating unrelated secondary meanings over time.
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