看
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to see; to look at; to read; to watch; to visit; to call on; to consider; to regard as; to look after; to treat (a patient or illness); to depend on; to feel (that); (after a verb) to give it a try; to watch out for
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 1
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 目 +4
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 看
- Common rank
- #500
- Unicode
- U+770B
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Formation & memory
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Words with 看
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 看病 | to visit a doctor; to see a patient | |
| 好看 | good-looking; nice-looking; (of a movie, book, TV show etc) good; in an embarrassing situa… | |
| 看见 | to see; to catch sight of | |
| 看到 | to see | |
| 中看不中用 | impressive-looking but useless | |
| 看人行事 | to treat people according to their rank and one's relationship with them (idiom) | |
| 看不中 | not impressed by | |
| 看家本事 | see 看家本領|看家本领[kan1 jia1 ben3 ling3] | |
| 看不出 | can't discern | |
| 看门人 | janitor; watchman | |
| 太长不看 | (Internet slang) TL;DR | |
| 看得过儿 | erhua variant of 看得過|看得过[kan4 de5 guo4] | |
| 看花眼 | to be dazzled; to not believe one's own eyes | |
| 看得中 | to take a liking for; to fancy | |
| 走马看花 | lit. flower viewing from horseback (idiom); fig. superficial understanding from cursory ob… | |
| 看不过 | cannot stand by idly and watch; unable to put up with it any longer; see 看不過去|看不过去[kan4 bu… | |
| 看不清 | not able to see clearly | |
| 看得出 | can see; can tell | |
| 看不起 | to look down upon; to despise | |
| 看不见 | cannot see; cannot be seen; invisible |