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瞵 is a phono-semantic compound with the eye radical 目 (representing an eye) on the left and the phonetic 粦 (lín) on the right. The eye radical 目, representing an eye, anchors the character's meaning in vision, specifying the act of staring, glaring, or looking with intense concentration, a sharp and piercing gaze attested in classical literature. The phonetic component 粦, which is itself formed from 炎 (flame) and 舛 (opposing), supplies the pronunciation lín and has no semantic role.
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