in English

kuī
to peep / to pry into

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 窺, the traditional character: 窥 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Small seal script: 窺 Small seal script

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • 德国将禁止雇主在脸书上偷窥。

    Germany is to ban employers from snooping on Facebook.

All example sentences with 窥

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