看 — Chinese character
看
kàn
to look, to see; to examine, to scrutinize
- Pinyin
- kàn
- Radical
- 109 ⽬ (Eye)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 手 目
- Formation
- ideographic — Shielding one's eyes 目 with a hand 手 to look to the distance
- Japanese
- 看 as a kanji
Common words with 看
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 看到 | kàn dào | to see |
| 看看 | kàn kan | to take a look at; to examine |
| 看见 (看見) | kàn jiàn | to see; to catch sight of |
| 看来 (看來) | kàn lai | apparently; it seems that |
| 看法 | kàn fǎ | way of looking at a thing; view |
| 看起来 (看起來) | kàn qǐ lai | seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appears to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be |
| 好看 | hǎo kàn | good-looking; nice-looking; (of a movie, book, TV show etc) good |
| 观看 (觀看) | guān kàn | to watch; to view |
| 查看 | chá kàn | to look over; to examine |
| 看待 | kàn dài | to look upon; to regard |
| 看出 | kàn chū | to make out; to see |
| 看上去 | kàn shang qu | it would appear; it seems (that) |
English words written with 看
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.