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盯

dīng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character

盯 (dīng) means "to watch attentively; to fix one's attention on; to stare at". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 盯 means

1. to watch attentively
2. to fix one's attention on
3. to stare at
4. to gaze at

Example sentences

• 别再盯着了。
  Stop staring.
• 别盯着别人看。
  Don't stare at others.
• 他们低头盯着脚。
  Tāmen dītóu dīng zhe jiǎo.
  They stared down at their feet.
• 汤姆惊恐地盯着。
  Tāngmǔ jīngkǒng de dīng zhe.
  Tom watched in horror.
• 她愤怒地盯着他。
  She angrily stared at him.
• 他一直盯着她的腿。
  Tā yīzhí dīng zhe tā de tuǐ.
  He was staring at her legs the whole time.

Words starting with 盯

• 盯住dīng zhùto watch sb closely; to breathe down sb's neck; to mark (sports)
• 盯梢dīng shāoto follow sb; to tail; to shadow
• 盯视dīng shìto stare fixedly; to look concentratedly
• 盯市dīng shìmark to market (accounting)
• 盯牢dīng láoto gaze intently at; to scrutinize
• 盯紧dīng jǐnto keep an eye on

Words containing 盯

• 紧盯jǐn dīngto gaze; to stare fixedly
• 紧迫盯人jǐn pò dīng rén(sports) to closely guard an opponent; (fig.) to keep a close eye on sb…

Characters that look like 盯

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 旺wàngprosperous; flourishing; (of flowers) blooming

Sounds the same

Read dīng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 丁male adult; the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干; fourth (used like "4" or "D")
• 钉nail; to follow closely; to keep at sb (to do sth)
• 叮to sting or bite (of mosquito, bee etc); to say repeatedly; to urge insistently
• 町(used in place names)
• 酊tincture (loanword)
• 仃used in 伶仃
• 玎jingling; tinkling
• 耵used in 耵聍; Taiwan pr. dǐng
• 疔boil; carbuncle
• 帄patch (for mending clothes)
• 靪to cobble; to patch
• 虰see 虰蛵

Where 盯 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · dīng–dōng (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dīng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.