見

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Preposition 5.1.1 Usage notes 5.2 Verb 5.2.1 Compounds 6 Middle Chinese 6.1 Han character 7 Vietnamese 7.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

depiction of a human eye: 目 ‘eye’ on top of 儿 ‘human’.

[edit] Han character

見 (radical 147 見+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 月山竹山 (BUHU), four-corner 6021₀)

1. see, observe, behold
2. perceive

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 1133, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34796
• Dae Jaweon: page 1599, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3663, character 1
• Unihan data for U+898B

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

見 (Yale gin3)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

見 (grade 1 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: けん (ken)
• Kun: みる (miru), みえる (mieru), まみえる (mamieru)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

見
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 견, 현 (revised: gyeon, hyeon, McCune-Reischauer: kyŏn, hyŏn, Yale: kyen, hyen)

• Name (hangeul): 볼 (revised: bol)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Preposition

見 (traditional, Pinyin jiàn, simplified 见)

1. [archaic] (to have something done) by (someone or something)

[edit] Usage notes

• The modern vernacular equivalent to the preposition would be 被

[edit] Verb

見 (traditional, Pinyin jiàn, simplified 见)

1. to see

[edit] Compounds

• 見面

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[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

見 (*gèn)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

見 (kiến, kén, hiện)