看

看 U+770B, 看
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-770B
← 眊
[U+770A] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 県 →
[U+770C]

Translingual
Stroke order

Han character

看 (radical 109, 目+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹手月山 (HQBU), four-corner 20604, composition ⿸龵目)

References
  • KangXi: page 803, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23196
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1219, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2474, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+770B

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 看
variant forms 㸔

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 看
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 手 (“hand”) + 目 (“eye”) – to put a hand above eyes to gaze afar.

Pronunciation 1
Note: khòaⁿ - vernacular, khàn - literary.
Note:
  • kang3 - literary (in 看相);
  • toin2 - semantic (訓讀) (in most compounds) (original character is 睇).
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 看 (看見)
Mandarin Beijing /kʰan⁵¹/
Harbin /kʰan⁵³/
Tianjin /kʰan⁵³/
Jinan /kʰã²¹/
Qingdao /kʰã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /kʰan³¹²/
Xi'an /kʰã⁴⁴/
Xining /kʰã²¹³/
Yinchuan /kʰan¹³/
Lanzhou /kʰɛ̃n¹³/
Ürümqi /kʰan²¹³/
Wuhan /kʰan³⁵/
Chengdu /kʰan¹³/
Guiyang /kʰan²¹³/
Kunming /kʰã̠²¹²/
Nanjing /kʰaŋ⁴⁴/
Hefei /kʰæ̃⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /kʰæ̃⁴⁵/
Pingyao /kʰɑŋ³⁵/
Hohhot /kʰæ̃⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /kʰø³⁵/
Suzhou /kʰø⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /kʰẽ̞⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /kʰø⁴²/
Hui Shexian /kʰɛ³²⁴/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /kʰan⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /kʰan⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /kʰɵn²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /kʰon⁵³/
Taoyuan /kʰon⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /hɔn³³/
Nanning /hɔn³³/
Hong Kong /hɔn³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kʰan²¹/
/kʰuã²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kʰɑŋ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kʰaŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kʰaŋ²¹³/
/kʰuã²¹³/
/tʰõi⁵³/ 訓讀
Haikou (Min Nan) /mo²³/ 訓望
Rime
Character 看
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 寒 (61)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 苦旰切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰanH/
Li
Rong		 /kʰɑnH/
Wang
Li		 /kʰɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 kàn
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 看
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 kàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khanH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[kʰ]ˁa[r]-s/
English gaze at

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 看
Reading # 2/2
No. 7355
Phonetic
component		 看
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 侃
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰaːns/

Definitions

看

  1. to look; to see; to watch
    看電影 / 看电影  ―  kàn diànyǐng  ―  to watch a movie
  2. (transitive) to read
    看報紙 / 看报纸  ―  kàn bàozhǐ  ―  to read the newspaper
  3. to visit; to call on
  4. to think; to feel (that)
  5. to consider; to regard as; to treat like
  6. to depend on
    要看  ―  yào kàn  ―  it depends on...
  7. to treat (a patient or sickness)
  8. participle indicating mood of trying

Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 看 (“to look”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 視
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 看
Mandarin Beijing 看, 瞧, 瞅
Taiwan 看
Jinan 看
Xi'an 看
Wuhan 看, 睄, 瞄
Chengdu 看, 𧢭
Yangzhou 看, 望
Hefei 看, 望
Cantonese Guangzhou 睇, 望
Hong Kong 睇, 望
Taishan 睇, 望
Yangjiang 看, 睇, 瞄
Gan Nanchang 看, 相
Hakka Meixian 看, 睞
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 看
Liudui (S. Sixian) 看
Hsinchu (Hailu) 看
Dongshi (Dabu) 看
Hsinchu (Raoping) 䀴
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 䀴
Huizhou Jixi 看
Jin Taiyuan 看, 瞭
Min Bei Jian'ou 覷
Min Dong Fuzhou 看, 覷
Min Nan Xiamen 看
Quanzhou 看
Zhangzhou 看
Taipei 看
Chaozhou 睇
Shantou 睇
Wu Shanghai 看
Suzhou 看, 望
Wenzhou 眙, 張
Xiang Changsha 看
Shuangfeng 看, 相

Compounds
Derived terms from 看

Pronunciation 2
Note: toin2 - semantic (訓讀) (original character is 睇).
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 看 (看守)
Mandarin Beijing /kʰan⁵⁵/
Harbin /kʰan⁴⁴/
Tianjin /kʰan²¹/
Jinan /kʰã²¹/
Qingdao /kʰã²¹³/
Zhengzhou /kʰan²⁴/
Xi'an /kʰã²¹/
Xining /kʰã⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /kʰan⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /kʰɛ̃n³¹/
Ürümqi /kʰan⁴⁴/
Wuhan /kʰan³⁵/
Chengdu /kʰan¹³/
Guiyang /kʰan²¹³/
Kunming /kʰã̠²¹²/
Nanjing /kʰaŋ³¹/
Hefei /kʰæ̃²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /kʰæ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /kʰɑŋ¹³/
Hohhot /kʰæ̃⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /kʰø³⁵/
Suzhou /kʰø⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /kʰẽ̞³³/
Wenzhou /kʰø⁴²/
Hui Shexian /kʰɛ³²⁴/
Tunxi /kʰuːə¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /kʰan³³/
Xiangtan /kʰan⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /kʰɵn⁴²/ 養雞
Hakka Meixian /kʰon⁵³/
Taoyuan /kʰon⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /hɔn⁵³/
Nanning /hɔn⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /hɔn⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kʰan⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kʰɑŋ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kʰaŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /tʰõi⁵³/ 訓讀
Haikou (Min Nan) /mo²³/ 訓望
Rime
Character 看
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 寒 (61)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 苦寒切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰɑn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰɑn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰan/
Li
Rong		 /kʰɑn/
Wang
Li		 /kʰɑn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 kān
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 看
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 kān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khan ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰˁa[r]/
English to watch, guard

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 看
Reading # 1/2
No. 7354
Phonetic
component		 看
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 看
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰaːn/

Definitions

看

  1. to look after; to take care of; to tend; to keep an eye on

Compounds
Derived terms from 看

Further reading

Japanese

Kanji
看

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. watch over
  2. see

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

看 (eumhun 볼 간 (bol gan))

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Vietnamese

Han character

看 (khan, khán, khản)

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References
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