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眈眈

Mandarin · pinyin dān dān

(to gaze) intently

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眈: dān · gloat, stare at; to delay, to loiter, to hinder

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1–1 · dan1 dan1

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adj

(literary, ideophonic) glaring; staring (angrily)

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