看
kànTraditional: 看
HSK 1
#63 of 5,000 Core 1000
Translation
to look, to watch, to read, to see
Stroke order
看
Examples
？
What book are you reading?
。
Let us go watch a film.
，猫！
Look, there is a cat over there!
李。
Please watch my luggage for me.
。
The doctor can only see you tomorrow.
Related words
Appears in 8 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 看.
看到kàn dàoto see, to catch sight of看看kàn kànto take a look, to have a look看起来kàn qǐ láiit seems, it looks like, apparently看见kàn jiànto see, to catch sight of, to notice看着kàn zhewhile watching, looking on, watching as看来kàn láiit seems, it looks like, apparently看过kàn guòhave seen, have read看上去kàn shàng qùto look, to seem, to appear
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