(jiàn) - to see, to meet, to encounter in Mandarin
jiànTraditional: 見
Translation
to see, to meet, to encounter
Word origin
见 (jiàn, 'to see') is an ideograph: it shows 目 (an eye) over 儿 (a person's legs), a person whose seeing is emphasised. It is the simplified form of 見.
- Origin
- ideograph
- Root
- 见 (目 eye over 儿 person, simplified from 見)
Stroke order
见
Examples
。
Nice to meet you.
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Let's meet up.
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Long time no see.
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I have not seen you for ages.
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I want to meet him.
见 (jiàn) means to see, to meet, to encounter. It is used as a verb in everyday Mandarin speech.
Appears in 8 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 见.
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Grammar articles
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