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  • kàn (kan⁴) Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Pinyin
  • ㄎㄢˋ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Bopomofo
  • kan⁴ Mandarin, Chengdu, Sichuanese
  • кан (kan, III) Mandarin, Dongan, Cyrillic
  • hon³ Cantonese, Guangzhou, Hong Kong
  • hon¹ Cantonese, Taishanese, Wiktionary specific
  • kon³ Gan, Wiktionary specific
  • khon Hakka, Sixian, Phak fa su
  • kon^ˇ Hakka, Hakka Romanization System, 海陸
  • kon⁴ Hakka, 梅縣, 客家話拼音
  • kan³ Jin, Wiktionary specific
  • kāng Min Bei, 建寧羅馬字
  • káng Min Dong, Foochow Romanized
  • kua⁴ Puxian Min, Pouseng Ping'ing
  • kuann⁴ Puxian Min, Pouseng Ping'ing
  • kang⁴ Puxian Min, Pouseng Ping'ing
  • khòaⁿ Min Nan, Hokkien, Phak fa su
  • khàn Min Nan, Hokkien, Phak fa su
  • kang³ Min Nan, Teochew, Peng'im
  • ⁵khoe Wu, Northern, Wugniu
  • ⁵khaen Wu, Northern, Wugniu
  • kan⁴ Xiang, Changsha, Wiktionary specific
  • kàn Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Pinyin
  • kàn Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Tongyong Pinyin
  • kʻan⁴ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Wade–Giles
  • kàn Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Yale
  • kann Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Gwoyeu Romatsyh
  • кань Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Cyrillic
  • kān (kan¹) Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Pinyin
  • ㄎㄢ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Bopomofo
  • kan¹ Mandarin, Chengdu, Sichuanese
  • hon¹ Cantonese, Guangzhou, Hong Kong
  • kon¹ Gan, Wiktionary specific
  • kan¹ Jin, Wiktionary specific
  • khan Min Nan, Hokkien, Phak fa su
  • ¹khoe Wu, Northern, Wugniu
  • ¹khaen Wu, Northern, Wugniu
  • kan¹ Xiang, Changsha, Wiktionary specific
  • kān Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Pinyin
  • kan Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Tongyong Pinyin
  • kʻan¹ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Wade–Giles
  • kān Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Yale
  • kan Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Gwoyeu Romatsyh
  • /kʰän⁵⁵/ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Sinological IPA
  • kan Mandarin, Chengdu, Latinxua Sin Wenz
  • toin² Min Nan, Teochew, Peng'im
  • thóiⁿ Min Nan, Teochew, POJ
  • /tʰõĩ⁵²/ Min Nan, Teochew, IPA

Where it comes from

會意漢字：手 + 目 (“眼睛”) – 把手放在眼睛上，讓視野更遠。

STEDT將其與原始藏緬語 *ka(n/ŋ) (“知道；看見”)對比。

也對比藏語 མཁན་པོ (mkhan po，“堪布，方丈”) (Schuessler, 2007)。

釋義 㸔 · 𡰶 · 𥉏 · 𡈟

  1. intransitive, transitive 用眼睛接收外界的事物 看電影
  2. transitive 閱讀 看報紙
  3. obsolete, transitive 觀察，檢查 出門蹉跌，看道後旅。
  4. transitive 探望；問候 我們有時去看我們的祖母。
  5. 想；感覺 我看你最好現在就出發。
  6. 看待，對待 他們把他看得一文不值。
  7. 以……為條件 要看
  8. 照看（病人）；診療（疾病）
  9. 表示嘗試。

Similar: 盼, 視, 見, 瞧, 瞅, 望, 𧢭, 睄, 瞄, 睇, 瞭, 瞫, 相, 睞, 䀴, 覷, 䁐, 睨, 𥆑, 眙, 張

釋義 㸔 · 𡰶 · 𥉏 · 𡈟

  1. 守護；照料；護理；監視 他沒有看小孩的本事。

釋義 㸔 · 𡰶 · 𥉏 · 𡈟

  1. Teochew 睇的另一種寫法 睇

Thesaurus

釋義

Similar: 盼, 視, 見, 瞧, 瞅, 望, 𧢭, 睄, 瞄, 睇, 瞭, 瞫, 相, 睞, 䀴, 覷, 䁐, 睨, 𥆑, 眙, 張

In English

  • read to look at and interpret letters or other information
  • look to try to see
  • behold to see, to look at
  • consume 7. absorb information
  • watch to look at for a period of time
  • look at observe or watch
  • take a look to examine or observe

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {看},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/zh/%E7%9C%8B},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}