看见 (kàn jiàn): meaning and stroke order
看见 (kàn jiàn) means to see; to catch sight of.
看见
- Simplified
- 看见
- Traditional
- 看見
- Pinyin
- kàn jiàn
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Stroke order of 看见
看
- kān to look after; to take care of
- kàn to see; to look at; to read
- 9 strokes
Stroke by stroke
见
- jiàn to see; to meet
- xiàn to appear; also written 現|现[xian4]
- 4 strokes
- Traditional form: 見
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Meaning of 看见
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kàn jiàn
Traditional 看見
- to see; to catch sight of
Radicals of the characters
- 看
- Radical 目 (Kangxi radical 109) · 9 strokes · built from 龵 and 目
- 见
- Radical 见 (Kangxi radical 147) in its simplified form · 4 strokes
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.
看见 in our stories
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可是保罗没有看见她。
kěshì Bǎoluó méiyǒu kànjiàn tā
But Paul couldn't see her.
From the story At the airport HSK 2
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回家的路上，刘阳看见卖西瓜的，一句话也没说。
huí jiā de lù shàng Liú Yáng kànjiàn mài xīguā de yí jù huà yě méi shuō
On the way home Liu Yang sees the watermelon seller and doesn't say a word.
From the story Ice-cold watermelon HSK 2
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他走了很久，没看见银行，也没看见书店。
tā zǒu le hěn jiǔ méi kànjiàn yínháng yě méi kànjiàn shūdiàn
He walks for a long time and sees neither a bank nor a bookshop.
From the story How do I get to the bookshop? HSK 2
Stories using 看见
- At the airport HSK 2
- Ice-cold watermelon HSK 2
- How do I get to the bookshop? HSK 2
- The little dragon and the rain HSK 2
- The noise upstairs HSK 3
- Waiting by the tree stump HSK 4
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).