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盱

Character · Verb

open eyes and look up; survey (literary)

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Meanings

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1.

verb

to open one's eyes and look upward; to survey; to gaze up

literary

Literary and classical Chinese term. Often appears in compounds such as 盱衡 (to survey from a high vantage point). Rare in modern colloquial speech.

Gǔ古
rén人
xū盱
héng衡
tiān天
xià下
 ，
cháng常
yǒu有
yōu忧
shì世
zhī之
xīn心
 。

The ancients surveyed the world with eyes raised, ever holding concerns for the age.

Tā他
xū盱
shì视
liáng良
jiǔ久
 ，
zhōng终
wú无
suǒ所
huò获
 。

He looked upward for a long time but ultimately found nothing.

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Xū盱
héng衡
dà大
jú局
 ，
fāng方
néng能
dìng定
cè策
 。

Only by surveying the overall situation can one formulate a strategy.