視

See also: 视

Translingual

Han character

視 (Kangxi radical 147, 見+4, 11 strokes, cangjie input 戈火月山山 (IFBUU), four-corner 3621₀, composition ⿰礻見)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1134, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34827
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3665, character 19
• Unihan data for U+8996

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Chinese

trad.		視
simp.		视
alternative forms		𤋇 眎 眡／视

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 視
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (示) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
示	*ɡle, *ɢljils
祁	*ɡril, *kljilʔ
狋	*ŋɡril, *ɡʷren
視	*ɡljilʔ, *ɡljils, *ɢljils
眎	*ɡljilʔ, *ɡljils, *ɢljils
沶	*li

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡljilʔ, *ɡljils, *ɢljils) : phonetic 示 (OC *ɡle, *ɢljils) + semantic 見 (“see”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 視

1. to see; to look; to view
2. to inspect; to examine
3. to regard; to consider
4. to visit
5. view; sight
6. 63rd tetragram of the Taixuanjing (𝍄)

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Japanese

Shinjitai	視
Kyūjitai

Kanji

視

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. to see; to look; to watch; to view; to observe
2. to look over; to look on; to assess; to examine; to judge
3. to look after; to keep an eye on; to take care of
4. to view (e.g. flowers, movie)
5. (usu. after the -te form of a verb) to try

Readings

• Go-on: じ (ji)
• Kan-on: し (shi, Jōyō)
• Kun: みる (miru, 視る)

Compounds

• 軽(けい)視(し) (keishi)

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Korean

Hanja

視 (eumhun 볼 시 (bol si))

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 視 (thị)

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Compounds

• 視實 (thị thực, “visa”)