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TranslingualEdit
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Han characterEdit
看 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹手月山 (HQBU), four-corner 20604, composition ⿸龵目)
ReferencesEdit
- KangXi: page 803, character 7
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23196
- Dae Jaweon: page 1219, character 6
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2474, character 3
- Unihan data for U+770B
ChineseEdit
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alternative forms | 㸔 |
Glyph originEdit
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Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
Ideogrammic compound (會意): 手 (“hand”) + 目 (“eye”) – to put a hand above eyes to gaze afar.
Etymology 1Edit
STEDT compares it to Proto-Tibeto-Burman *ka(n/ŋ) (“to know; to see”).
Also compare Tibetan མཁན་པོ (mkhan po, “professor; abbot”) (Schuessler, 2007).
Pronunciation 1Edit
DefinitionsEdit
看
- (intransitive, transitive) to look; to see; to watch
- (transitive) to read
- 永叔謂為文有三多:看多、做多、商量多也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: 11th century, 陳師道 (Chen Shidao), 《後山詩話》
- Yǒngshū wèi wèi wén yǒu sānduō: kàn duō, zuò duō, shāngliàng duō yě. [Pinyin]
- Yongshu said that in writing, there are three things to do much of. These are reading much, writing much, and revising much.
永叔谓为文有三多:看多、做多、商量多也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
- † (transitive) to observe; to check
- (transitive) to visit; to call on
- to think; to feel (that)
- to consider; to regard as; to treat like
- to depend on
- 要看 ― yào kàn ― it depends on...
- to treat (a patient or sickness)
- Used to indicate the potential mood.
SynonymsEdit
- (to look): 盼 (pàn)
Dialectal synonyms of 看 (“to look”) [map]
CompoundsEdit
Derived terms from 看
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Pronunciation 2Edit
DefinitionsEdit
看
- to look after; to take care of; to tend; to keep an eye on
CompoundsEdit
Derived terms from 看
Etymology 2Edit
PronunciationEdit
DefinitionsEdit
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Further readingEdit
- “Entry #5324”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
JapaneseEdit
KanjiEdit
看
- watch over
- see
ReadingsEdit
EtymologyEdit
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看 |
かん Grade: 6 |
on’yomi |
From Middle Chinese 看 (MC kʰɑn, kʰɑnH).
PronunciationEdit
AffixEdit
- to watch over; to watch attentively
Derived termsEdit
KoreanEdit
HanjaEdit
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VietnameseEdit
Han characterEdit
看: Hán Nôm readings: khan, khán, khản
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