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看到 (kàn dào): meaning and stroke order

看到 (kàn dào) means to see.

看到

Simplified
看到
Traditional
看到 (same form)
Pinyin
kàn dào

Stroke order of 看到

看

  • kān to look after; to take care of
  • kàn to see; to look at; to read
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

到

  • dào to reach; to arrive; to leave for; to go to
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 看到

  1. kàn dào
    • to see

Radicals of the characters

看
Radical 目 (Kangxi radical 109) · 9 strokes · built from 龵 and 目
到
Radical 刀 (Kangxi radical 18) · 8 strokes · 至 on the left, 刂 on the right

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.

看到 in our stories

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  • 露西看着菜单，看到了一个奇怪的名字：“夫妻肺片”。

    Lùxī kàn zhe càidān kàndào le yí gè qíguài de míngzi fūqī fèipiàn

    Looking at the menu, Lucy sees a strange name: "husband and wife lung slices".

    From the story "Husband and wife lung slices" HSK 3

  • 梁宇下了飞机，在行李转盘旁边等了半个小时，也没看到自己的箱子。

    Liáng Yǔ xià le fēijī zài xíngli zhuànpán pángbiān děng le bàn gè xiǎoshí yě méi kàndào zìjǐ de xiāngzi

    Liang Yu got off the plane and waited half an hour at the baggage carousel without seeing his suitcase.

    From the story The identical suitcase HSK 4

  • 他找了好几天，终于看到一个只要九十九块的灰色沙发，照片上看起来非常舒服。

    tā zhǎo le hǎojǐ tiān zhōngyú kàndào yí gè zhǐ yào jiǔshíjiǔ kuài de huīsè shāfā zhàopiàn shàng kànqilai fēicháng shūfu

    After searching for days he finally found a grey sofa for only ninety-nine yuan, and in the photo it looked very comfortable.

    From the story The ninety-nine-yuan sofa HSK 4

Stories using 看到

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).