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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

components: 手 目

How to remember it

look at · Heisig RSH #585

手 hand + 目 eye

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words containing 看

WordPinyinMeaning
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]