瞧

qiáo · HSK 5

look at

👀 瞧 = 目 (eye) + 焦 (focus); the eye that focuses to behold

The 目 radical on the left marks this as an eye/seeing word. 焦 (jiāo, scorched/focus) supplies the qiáo sound. So 瞧 is the eye-verb pronounced like 焦 — to fix your gaze and behold.

瞧 — eye radical 目 + 焦 (jiāo, phonetic)
瞧 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The 目 (eye) radical signals meaning related to looking or seeing, while 焦 supplies the sound (jiāo → qiáo). It's a relatively late character used colloquially to mean 'look at' or 'glance,' as in 瞧一瞧 ('take a look').

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