Kilo Lingo

见

jiàn

Traditional: 見

HSK 2
#246 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to see, to meet, to encounter

Stroke order

Stroke order for 见

见

Examples

。

Nice to meet you.

。

Let's meet up.

。

Long time no see.

。

I have not seen you for ages.

。

I want to meet him.

见 (jiàn) means to see, to meet, to encounter. It is used as a verb in everyday Mandarin speech.

Related words

看到

to see, to catch sight of

你好

hello, how are you

朋友

friend

认识

to know, to recognize, to be acquainted with

再见

goodbye, farewell

Appears in 5 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 见.

再见zài jiàngoodbye, farewell看见kàn jiànto see, to catch sight of, to notice见到jiàn dàoto meet, to see, to encounter听见tīng jiànhear, catch sound of见面jiàn miànto meet (in person)

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This word is part of lesson 5.