漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
見: see, hopes
Also: chances, idea, opinion, look at, visible
目 and 儿 are drawn in
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Western Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone and bronze: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Four readings, and the words that use each
ケンken · on'yomi · in compounds
- 見学するけんがくするstudy, take a research trip
- 発見するはっけんするdiscover
- 拝見するはいけんするtake a look at [hum.]
- 意見いけんopinion
- 偏見へんけんprejudice
みるmiru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 見るみるsee
- 見つかるみつかるbe found [v.i.]
- 見つけるみつけるfind [v.t.]
- 花見はなみcherry-blossom viewing
みえるmieru · kun'yomi
- 見えるみえるbe seen, seem
みせるmiseru · kun'yomi
- 見せるみせるshow
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)目 eye + 卩 kneeling person
目 (“eye”) + 卩 (“kneeling person”) – a kneeling human figure with a large eye for a head. Similar but unrelated to 艮.
Source: Wiktionary, 見 (rev. 92201717), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“The base kanji for the physical act of seeing or the mental act of perceiving a situation and gaining a clear understanding of it.”
Connections
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by sideIn ChineseSimplified 见 · traditional, as in Japanese · jiàn
Japan keeps the traditional form 見; mainland China simplifies it to 见.
- Simplified
- 见 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 見 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jiàn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.