闚
kui1Mathews: 3649
Dictionary Definition
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Concordance & Context (4 occurrences)
Entries shown in Hatcher's reference chain order. First Witness at 20.2
2nd Line★
(a) pry, spy, peep (ing) (as thru door cracks)
闚觀，利女贞。
A prying perspective
Serves a young woman’s persistence
Stats: 169+11→ 55.6
6th Line
peering, peeking, spying, watching through
豐其屋，蔀其家，闚其戶，闃其無人，三歲不覿，凶。
So rich are their dwellings
Screening away their own families
Peering through their doorways
Desolate in their want of others
Three years not seen face to face
Unfortunate
→ 20.2
Xiao Xiang 2
(with) prying
闚觀女贞，亦可醜也。
20.2x (With) prying perspective, the young woman persists:
But still invites condemnation
Xiao Xiang 6
peering through
豐其屋，天際翔也。闚其戶，闃其無人，自藏也。
55.6x (So) rich (are) their dwellings:
(Having) soared to heaven’s threshold
* Peering through their doorways
Desolate in their want of others:
A consequence of concealment
Homophones (kui)
刲kui1sacrifices, slaughters, stabs, cuts open虧kui1diminishes, decreases, reduces, lessens睽kui2(to be) estranged, separated, distant, weird, dissociated, divergent, separate(d), removed, polarized, contrary, unusual, strange, alien, foreign, opposed, in opposition, diametrically opposed; (a, the) disparity, estrangement, separation, polarity; eyes not aligned, moving separately饋kui4making, preparing food, meals; cooking
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