Definitions
to roll the eyeballs to look
Etymology
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The phono-semantic compound 睙 describes a hostile, sharp glare. Its left side, the eye radical 目 (mù), anchors the meaning in the realm of sight, while the phonetic 戾 (lì) on the right independently carries strong connotations of perversity and aggression. Together, they precisely evoke the act of casting a malicious look, with the character's negative intensity largely drawn from the conceptual weight of 戾.
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