看

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

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

To put a hand above eyes to gaze afar.

Han character

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

1. look
2. examine, scrutinize

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

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

Synonyms

• 睇, 望

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Japanese

Kanji

看 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: かん (kan)
• Kun: みる (miru)

Compounds

• 看護
• 看護師
• 看守
• 看板
• 看病

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

simpl. and trad.
看

Pronunciation

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Verb

看 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin kàn)

1. to watch, to read, to see, to look at
   • 1John 1.1

     论到从起初原有的生命之道，就是我们所听见所看见，亲眼看过，亲手摸过的。

     Lùndào cóng qǐchū yuányǒu de shēngmìng zhī dào, jiùshì wǒmen suǒ tīngjiàn suǒ kànjiàn de, qīnyǎn kànguo, qīnshǒu mōguo de.

     That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;

   • [1]

     首先看到的是 Thames 河 的出海口

   神看光是好的，就把光暗分開了。

   神看光是好的，就把光暗分开了。

   Shén kàn guāng shì hǎo de, jiù bà guāng'àn fēnkāi le.

   And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

References

• Bible Genesis Chapter 1 verse 4

Verb

看 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin kān)

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

Hanzi

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

• 看 is a combination of two radicals. From hand radical: shǒu 手 and eye radical: Mù 目

Compounds

• kān
  • 看大
  • 看管
  • 看护
  • 看家
  • 看家狗
  • 看家戏
  • 看门
  • 看青
  • 看守
  • 看守内阁
  • 看守所
  • 看押
  • 看住
• kàn
  • 看看 (kànkàn), to glance at.
  • 看扁
  • 看病
  • 看不见 (kànbujiàn), cannot see
  • 看不惯
  • 看不过去
  • 看不起
  • 看得见 (kàndejiàn), can see
  • 看茶
  • 看穿
  • 看待
  • 看得起
  • 看低
  • 看跌
  • 看法
  • 看风色
  • 看风使舵
  • 看顾
  • 看官
  • 看惯
  • 看好
  • 看见, (kànjiàn), see, to get sight of
  • 看开
  • 看来, (kànlái), it looks as though, it seems like, it looks as if
  • 看你
  • 看破
  • 看破红尘
  • 看齐
  • 看起来
  • 看亲
  • 看轻
  • 看清
  • 看热闹
  • 看人下菜
  • 看日子
  • 看上
  • 看上去
  • 看手相
  • 看死
  • 看台
  • 看头
  • 看透
  • 看望
  • 看相
  • 看笑话
  • 看样子
  • 看医生
  • 看涨
  • 看中
  • 看重
  • 看准
  • 看座
  • 看做
  • 看样子, (kànyàngzi), it looks as though, it seems like, it looks as if

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Min Nan

Verb

看 (traditional and simplified, POJ khuànn)

1. to see

Vietnamese

Han character

看 (khán)