dèng

to open (one's eyes) wide

to stare at; to glare at

eye (目) + sound dèng (登) = stare wide-eyed

The eye radical (目) carries the visual intensity here. 登 mainly contributes the dèng sound, though the image of 'ascending' lends a faint sense of straining upward — eyes wide and locked.

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To ascendPhonetic
EyeSemantic

着眼睛看那道难题。

tā dèng zhe yǎn jing kàn nà dào nán tí。

He stared wide-eyed at that difficult problem.

妈妈生气地了他一眼,他马上不说话了。

māma shēng qì de dèng le tā yī yǎn,tā mǎshàng bù shuō huà le。

Mom glared at him angrily, and he immediately stopped talking.

Words with 瞪

干瞪眼

gān dèng yǎn

to watch helplessly

吹胡子瞪眼

chuī hú zi dèng yǎn

to get angry; to fume

大眼瞪小眼

dà yǎn dèng xiǎo yǎn

(idiom) to look at each other, not knowing what to do

目瞪口呆

mù dèng kǒu dāi

(idiom) dumbstruck; stupefied; stunned

直眉瞪眼

zhí méi dèng yǎn

to stare angrily or vacantly

直瞪瞪

zhí dèng dèng

to stare blankly

瞪眼

dèng yǎn

to open one's eyes wide

瞪羚

dèng líng

gazelle

瞪鞋摇滚

dèng xié yáo gǔn

shoegaze (music genre)

迷瞪

mí dèng

puzzled

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