看

to look, watch, read

No. 74 most used · 0.46% of everyday spoken Chinese: about 1 character in every 217.

Also read: kān 看门

How it's built

• 手hand
• 目eye

A way to remember it

A hand (手) over the eye (目), shading it to look far.

Words

• 看到

  kàn dào

  to see
• 看看

  kàn kan

  to take a look at; to examine; to survey
• 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
• 看见

  kàn jiàn

  to see; to catch sight of
• 看来

  kàn lai

  apparently; it seems that
• 看上去

  kàn shang qu

  it would appear; it seems (that)

Sentences

• 不要小看我的力量。

  bú yào xiǎo kàn wǒ de lì liang

  Don't underestimate my power.
• 他们一起去看电影。

  tā men yì qǐ qù kàn diàn yǐng

  They go to movies together.
• 他们什么都没看到。

  tā men shén me dōu méi kàn dào

  They did not see anything.
• 你没看见那个人吗？

  nǐ méi kàn jiàn nà ge rén ma

  Have you seen that person?

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.