看
·
to see; to look at; to read; to watch; to visit; to call on; to consider; to regard as; to look after; to treat (a patient or illness); to depend on; to feel (that); (after a verb) to give it a try; to watch out for
9 strokes
Dict coverage rank #500 U+770B
How 看 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Shielding one's eyes 目 with a hand 手 to look to the distance
How to remember it
look at · Heisig RSH #585
手 hand + 目 eye
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words containing 看
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 中看不中用 | zhōng kàn bù zhōng yòng | impressive-looking but useless |
| 看人行事 | kàn rén xíng shì | to treat people according to their rank and one's relationship with them (idiom) |
| 看不中 | kàn bu zhòng | not impressed by |
| 看家本事 | kān jiā běn shi | see 看家本領|看家本领[kan1 jia1 ben3 ling3] |
| 看不出 | kàn bu chū | can't discern |
| 看门人 | kān mén rén | janitor; watchman |
| 太长不看 | tài cháng bù kàn | (Internet slang) TL;DR |
| 看得过儿 | kàn de guò r | erhua variant of 看得過|看得过[kan4 de5 guo4] |
| 看花眼 | kān huā yǎn | to be dazzled; to not believe one's own eyes |
| 看得中 | kàn de zhòng | to take a liking for; to fancy |
| 走马看花 | zǒu mǎ kàn huā | lit. flower viewing from horseback (idiom); fig. superficial understanding from cursory ob… |
| 看不过 | kàn bu guò | cannot stand by idly and watch; unable to put up with it any longer; see 看不過去|看不过去[kan4 bu… |
| 看不清 | kàn bu qīng | not able to see clearly |
| 看得出 | kàn de chū | can see; can tell |
| 看不起 | kàn bu qǐ | to look down upon; to despise |
| 看不见 | kàn bu jiàn | cannot see; cannot be seen; invisible |
| 看鸟人 | kàn niǎo rén | a bird-watcher |
| 看着不管 | kàn zhe bù guǎn | to stand by and pay no heed; to ignore |
| 看头 | kàn tou | qualities that make sth worth seeing (or reading) |
| 中看 | zhōng kàn | pleasant to the eye; Taiwan pr. [zhong4 kan4] |