观

See also 觀, and 観

Translingual

Stroke order

shinjitai	観
simplified	观
traditional	觀

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Etymology

Simplified from 觀 (雚 → 又 and 見 → 见). Same simplification of phonetic occurs in 权.

Han character

观 (radical 147 见+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 水月竹山 (EBHU))

1. see, observe, view
2. appearance

Related characters

• 权

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1139, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3664, character 5
• Unihan data for U+89C2

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Cantonese

Hanzi

观 (traditional 觀, Yale gun1)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

观 (traditional 觀, pinyin guān (guan1), guàn (guan4), Wade-Giles kuan¹, kuan4)

Usage notes

The normal reading (referring to seeing, observing, or viewing) is guān. The reading guàn is used only for various ancient meanings related to Daoism.

Compounds

• 观测
• 观察
• 观察家
• 观察哨
• 观察所
• 观察员
• 观潮派
• 观点
• 观风
• 观感
• 观光
• 观看
• 观客
• 观览
• 观礼
• 观摩
• 观念
• 观念形态
• 观赏
• 观赏鱼
• 观赏植物
• 观世音
• 观望
• 观象台
• 观音
• 观音竹
• 观瞻
• 观战
• 观阵
• 观止
• 观众