見

See also 见, 貝, and 目

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

simplified	见
traditional	見

Etymology

目 (“eye”) + 儿 (“human”) – an eye on a pair of legs. Originally a human figure with a large eye for a head.

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

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

Descendants

• 见

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

見 (Yale gin3)

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Japanese

Kanji

見 (grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. to see

Readings

• On: けん (ken)
• Kun: みる (見る, miru), みえる (見える, mieru), まみえる (見える, mamieru), みせる (見せる, miseru)

Compounds

• 見解 (けんかい, kenkai)
• 見聞 (けんぶん, kenbun)
• 一見 (いっけん, ikken; いちげん, ichigen)
• 所見 (しょけん, shoken)
• 初見 (しょけん, shoken)
• 必見 (ひっけん, hikken)
• 無見 (むけん, muken): the belief that everything in this world is completely null and void, with no substance.

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Korean

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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Mandarin

simplified	见
traditional	見

Pronunciation

• (jiàn)

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• IPA: [ tɕiɛn˥˩ ]
• (archaic) IPA: [ ɕiɛn˥˩ ]

Adverb

見 (traditional, Pinyin xiàn, simplified 见)

1. (archaic) now (same as 現)

Preposition

見 (traditional, Pinyin jiàn, simplified 见)

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

Usage notes

• The modern vernacular equivalent to the preposition would be 被

Verb

見 (traditional, Pinyin jiàn, simplified 见)

1. (Beginning Mandarin) to see

Compounds

• 見面
• 再見

References

• "見" (in Mandarin/English). Pleco Dictionary. URL accessed on 2011-02-13.
• "見" (in Mandarin). Guoyu Cidian On-line Mandarin Dictionary (國語辭典). URL accessed on 2011-02-13.
• 2007, Hanyu Da Cidian 3.0 (in Mandarin), Hong Kong: Commercial Press, ISBN 9789620702778:
• "見" (in Mandarin/English). Dr. eye. URL accessed on 2011-02-13.

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Middle Chinese

Han character

見 (*gèn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

見 (kiến, kén, hiện)