看

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[edit] Translingual

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[edit] Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 手 (“‘hand’”) + 目 (“‘eye’”)

To put a hand above eyes to gaze afar.

[edit] Han character

看 (radical 109 目+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹手月山 (HQBU), four-corner 20604)

  1. look, see
  2. examine, scrutinize

[edit] References

  • KangXi: page 803, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23196
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1219, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2474, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+770B

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

看 (jyutping hon1, hon3, Yale hon1, hon3)

[edit] Synonyms

[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

看 (grade 6 kanji)

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[edit] Compounds

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[edit] Hanja

看 (hangeul 간, revised gan, McCune-Reischauer kan, Yale kan)

[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Hanzi

看 (pinyin kān (kan1), kàn (kan4), Wade-Giles k'an1, k'an4)

[edit] Verb

kān first tone 看

  1. to look after, to take care of, tend, keep an eye on

kàn fourth tone 看

  1. watch, read，see, look at
  • 看 is a combination of two radicals. From hand radical: shǒu 手 and eye radical: Mù 目

[edit] Compounds

[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

看 (khán)

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