看 (kàn): meaning and stroke order
看 (kàn) means to see; to look at, to read, to watch, to visit; to call on, to consider; to regard as.
看
- Simplified
- 看
- Traditional
- 看 (same form)
- Pinyin
- kàn · kān
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Stroke order of 看
看
- kān to look after; to take care of
- kàn to see; to look at; to read
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Meaning of 看
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kàn
- 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
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kān
- to look after
- to take care of
- to watch
- to guard
Radical and structure
- 看
- Radical 目 (Kangxi radical 109) · 9 strokes · built from 龵 and 目
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 看
- 好看 hǎo kàn good-looking; nice-looking; (of a movie, book, TV show etc) good
- 看作 kàn zuò to look upon as; to regard as
- 看来 kàn lai apparently; it seems that
- 看到 kàn dào to see
- 看法 kàn fǎ way of looking at a thing; view
- 看病 kàn bìng to visit a doctor; to see a patient
- 看看 kàn kan to take a look at; to examine
- 看见 kàn jiàn to see; to catch sight of
- 眼看 yǎn kàn soon; in a moment
- 查看 chá kàn to look over; to examine
- 看起来 kàn qǐ lai seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appears to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be
看 in our stories
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朋友看照片：“这个孩子是谁？”
péngyou kàn zhàopiàn zhè gè háizi shì shéi
His friend looks at the photo: "Who is this child?"
From the story A photo HSK 1
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小月看手机：今天是星期六！
Xiǎoyuè kàn shǒujī jīntiān shì xīngqīliù
Xiaoyue looks at her phone: today is Saturday!
From the story Xiaoyue's day HSK 1
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年来，看到红色。
Nián lái kàn dào hóngsè
Nian came and saw red everywhere.
From the story The story of Nian HSK 1
Where you learn it
看 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 1 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.
Stories using 看
- A photo HSK 1
- Xiaoyue's day HSK 1
- The story of Nian HSK 1
- At the airport HSK 2
- Next Friday HSK 2
- How do I get to the bookshop? HSK 2
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).