HSK 6 · Verbs

瞪 dèng “to stare” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 瞪 means

  1. to stare
  2. to glare
  3. to open (one’s eyes) wide
  4. to stare at
  5. to glare at

How to say 瞪

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale瞪dèng4th tone, falling

瞪 in a sentence

  1. 问她问题的时候她冷冷地瞪了我一眼。

    Wèn tā wèntí de shíhou tā lěnglěng de dèng le wǒ yì yǎn.

    When I asked her a question, she gave me a cold stare.

    Sentence #3669427 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 大家都在瞪着。

    Dàjiā dōu zài dèng zhe.

    Everyone was staring.

    Sentence #9401479 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 女人瞪了我们。

    Nǚrén dèng le wǒmen.

    The woman glared at us.

    Sentence #6148384 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 瞪 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 瞪 (dèng) with each of its parts in a different colour
瞪dèngto open wide
  • 目eye · mùMeaning part
  • 登to rise · dēngSound part

目 hints at the meaning (eye); 登 (dēng) hints at the sound. Compare it with dèng.

How to write 瞪

瞪 17 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

瞪 (dèng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 瞪 (dèng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 瞪

More words: Common Verbs

打架dǎjià · to fight打量dǎliang · to size up捣乱dǎoluàn · to make trouble搭配dāpèi · to match蹬dēng · to push down with the foot等候děnghòu · to wait得罪dézuì · to offend颠倒diāndǎo · to turn upside down

FAQs

瞪 (dèng) means “to stare” or “to glare”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it dèng: dèng with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 瞪 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type deng with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 瞪 from the suggestions. Typing deng into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
瞪 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.