见
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to see; to meet; to appear (to be sth); to interview; opinion; view
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 1
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 見 itself
- Structure
- Top enclosure 上包
- Traditional
- 見
- Common rank
- #215
- Unicode
- U+89C1
Sound it out + + = · + + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 见 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Simplified form of 見; a man 儿 with the eye 目 emphasized
How to remember it
see · Heisig RSH #58
目 eye + human legs
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 见
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 见面 | to meet; to see each other; CL:次[ci4] | |
| 看见 | to see; to catch sight of | |
| 听见 | to hear | |
| 再见 | goodbye; see you again later | |
| 不见天日 | all black, no daylight (idiom); a world without justice | |
| 有眼力见儿 | (dialect) alert; attentive; observant | |
| 见机行事 | see the opportunity and act (idiom); to act according to circumstances; to play it by ear;… | |
| 见不得人 | shameful | |
| 开门见山 | lit. to open the door and see the mountain; fig. to get right to the point (idiom) | |
| 眼力见儿 | erhua form of 眼力見|眼力见[yan3 li4 jian4] | |
| 无主见 | without one's own opinions | |
| 见面会 | meet and greet; fan meeting | |
| 有主见 | opinionated; having one's own strong views | |
| 重见天日 | to see the light again (idiom); delivered from oppression | |
| 不见 | not to see; not to meet; to have disappeared; to be missing | |
| 意见不合 | to disagree; dissent | |
| 不见得 | not necessarily; not likely | |
| 明天见 | see you tomorrow; (coll., jocular) food that passes through the digestive system more or l… | |
| 见不得 | not fit to be seen by; should not be exposed to; can't bear to see | |
| 前不见古人，后不见来者 | unique; unprecedented (idiom) |
Sound family
These characters use 见 as their sound component — compare how they read.