Chinese Character 看 Meanings and components.

Form

看

Meaning

看 meaning[3] in English

To Look After.

To Take Care Of.

To Watch.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 看 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are hand (手) , and eye (目)

Its radical[1] is: 目 (mu4) which means: Eye, Item, Section, List, Catalogue, Table Of Contents, Order (Taxonomy), Goal, Name, Title, .目mu4eye

In cangjie it is written with HQBU

How to write 看

To write看kan4to look … you should write a combination of 手shou3hand , 目mu4eye arranged in a 吕 shape:

手 + 目 = 看

看 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 看 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 看, looks as follow:

看
Pinyin:kan4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: To Look After . To Take Care Of . To Watch . To Guard
手
Pinyin:shou3
Meaning[3]: Hand . (Formal) To Hold . Person Engaged In Certain Types Of Work . Person Skilled In Certain Types Of Work . Personal(Ly) . Convenient . Classifier For Skill . Cl:雙|双[Shuang1],隻|只[Zhi1]
目
Pinyin:mu4
Meaning[3]: Eye . Item . Section . List . Catalogue . Table Of Contents . Order (Taxonomy) . Goal . Name . Title

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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