漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
視: inspection, regard as
Also: see, look at
JLPT N111 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
見 carries the meaning · 礻 gives the sound
11 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
シshi · on'yomi · in compounds
- 視野しやfield of vision, outlook
- 視界しかいfield of vision
- 視力しりょくeyesight
- 視点してんpoint of view
- 視聴者しちょうしゃviewer, audience
- 警視庁けいしちょうpolice headquarters
- 近視きんしshortsightedness
- 視察するしさつするinspect, observe
- 軽視するけいしするthink little of, ignore, slight
- 無視するむしするdisregard, ignore
- 監視するかんしするobserve, guard, inspect
- 重視するじゅうしするregard highly
Also read みる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)示 (sound) + 見 see (meaning)
Source: Wiktionary, 視 (rev. 91783425), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“I see you clearly! This radical represents the active, conscious act of looking at the world.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side視 inspection · 礻
vs現 present · 王In ChineseSimplified 视 · traditional, as in Japanese · shì
Japan keeps the traditional form 視; mainland China simplifies it to 视.
- Simplified
- 视 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 視 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin shì most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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