Definitions
to roll the eyeballs to look
Etymology
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The character 睙 is a phono-semantic compound describing an aggressive facial expression. Its left side features the eye radical 目 (mù), which sets the semantic field of vision and ocular movement. The right side is the phonetic component 戾 (lì), a character that inherently suggests perversity, violence, or hostility. This combination of the eye radical with a phonetic element meaning hostility conveys the core sense of casting a hostile or malicious glare. The character thus visually embodies a specific expression of negative emotion, with its meaning strongly reinforced by the connotations of its phonetic half.