{"path":"/entry/94983","title":"虎视眈眈 / 虎視眈眈 (hǔ shì dān dān) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"虎视眈眈 / 虎視眈眈 (hǔ shì dān dān): to fix one's eyes on something like a tiger watching its prey (idiom). Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":94983,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["虎视眈眈"],"TRADITIONAL":["虎視眈眈"]}},"phonetic":"hǔ shì dān dān","phoneticKey":"hu3 shi4 dan1 dan1","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"literally","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to fix one's eyes on something like a tiger watching its prey ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"figuratively","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to eye covetously","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["VERB"],"frequency":20286,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From I Ching, Hexagram 27 (《易经·頤卦》)","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"六四：颠颐，吉，虎视眈眈，其欲逐逐，无咎。","traditional":"六四：顛頤，吉，虎視眈眈，其欲逐逐，无咎。"},"phonetic":"Liùsì: diān yí, jí, hǔshì dāndān, qí yù zhúzhú, wú jiù.","english":"The fourth SIX, divided, shows one looking downwards for (the power to) nourish. There will be good fortune. Looking with a tiger's downward unwavering glare, and with his desire that impels him to spring after spring, he will fall into no error.","ref":"I Ching, 11ᵗʰ – 8ᵗʰ century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}