看

kàn

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

hand (手) + eye (目) = to see and observe

The hand shading the eye creates the classic gesture of looking intently at something in the distance. This physical action of focused observation naturally extended to all forms of seeing, reading, and examining.

手+目→看
手HandSemantic
目EyeSemantic

我每天晚上都看书。

wǒ měi tiān wǎn shang dōu kàn shū。

I read books every evening.

你觉得这件事能不能成,就看你自己了。

nǐ jué de zhè jiàn shì néng bu néng chéng,jiù kàn nǐ zì jǐ le。

Whether this thing can succeed depends on you yourself.

Words with 看

看好

kān hǎo

to keep an eye on

看好

kàn hǎo

to regard as having good prospects

连连看

lián lián kàn

pattern matching (puzzle game)

看见

kàn jiàn

to see; to catch sight of

看成

kàn chéng

to regard as

难看

nán kàn

ugly

雾里看花

wù lǐ kàn huā

lit. to look at flowers in the fog (idiom); fig. blurred vision

高看

gāo kàn

to attach importance to sth

一切向钱看

yī qiè xiàng qián kàn

to put money above everything else

一眼看穿

yī yǎn kàn chuān

to see through something at first glance (idiom)

不看僧面看佛面

bù kàn sēng miàn kàn fó miàn

lit. not for the monk's sake but for the Buddha's sake (idiom)

中看

zhōng kàn

pleasant to the eye

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