窥

闚
kuī
#2,742 most
frequent character
variant of 窺|窥[kui1]

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

窥 joins 穴 a hole with 规 guī, the sound part, whose rhyme matches. Peeping through a hole gives the first sense, 'to peep'. That grew to 'to spy'.

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Same Characters, Different Readings

窥kuī
to peep, to pry into

Homophones

亏kuī
deficit, deficiency, luckily

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