kàn

to see; to look at

to read; to watch; to visit; to call on; to consider; to regard as; to look after; to treat (a patient or illness); to depend on; to feel (that); (after a verb) to give it a try; to watch out for

hand (手) + eye (目) = to see and observe

The hand shading the eye creates the classic gesture of looking intently at something in the distance. This physical action of focused observation naturally extended to all forms of seeing, reading, and examining.

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HandSemantic
EyeSemantic

Words with 看

连连看

lián lián kàn

pattern matching (puzzle game)

难看

nán kàn

ugly

雾里看花

wù lǐ kàn huā

lit. to look at flowers in the fog (idiom); fig. blurred vision

高看

gāo kàn

to attach importance to sth

一切向钱看

yī qiè xiàng qián kàn

to put money above everything else

一眼看穿

yī yǎn kàn chuān

to see through something at first glance (idiom)

不看僧面看佛面

bù kàn sēng miàn kàn fó miàn

lit. not for the monk's sake but for the Buddha's sake (idiom)

中看

zhōng kàn

pleasant to the eye

中看不中用

zhōng kàn bù zhōng yòng

impressive-looking but useless

乍看

zhà kàn

at first glance

你看着办吧

nǐ kàn zhe bàn ba

You figure it out for yourself.

依我来看

yī wǒ lái kàn

as I see it

More characters with 手