瞅
choǔ · HSK 7
to look at
👀 Sounds like CHEW — you chew while staring at the menu
The left radical 目 means eye, confirming this is about looking. The right side 秋 (autumn) gives the sound chou. So: eye + autumn-sound = to gaze at something.
瞅 — eye radical 目 + autumn 秋
瞅 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The eye radical 目 gives the meaning (related to looking or glancing), while 秋 (qiū) supplies the sound, shifted to chǒu in modern Mandarin. It is a colloquial northern verb meaning 'to glance at' or 'to look.'