眈
眈 — tam
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 노려볼 탐
- Romanization
- tam
- English
- gloat, stare at; to delay, to loiter, to hinder
- Mandarin
- dān
- Japanese on'yomi
- タン, トン, ドン, チン
- Japanese kun'yomi
- にら.む
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 目 (109, 4 residual)
- Unicode
- U+7708
Words written with 眈
- 탐탐眈眈 위엄 있게 주시하고 있는 모양.
- 호시탐탐하다虎視眈眈 남의 것을 빼앗기 위하여 형세를 살피며 가만히 기회를 엿보다. 범이 눈을 부릅뜨고 먹이를 노려본다는 뜻에서 나온 말로, ≪주역
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 眈
- 眈々たんたん (glaring) covetously; (watching) eagerly (for a chance)
- 虎視眈々こしたんたん vigilantly (watching for an opportunity); eagerly; with an eagle eye
Japanese data from EDRDG KANJIDIC2 and JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0)