Chinese Character Wiki
視

shì

look at

Phonosemantic compound. 見 represents the meaning and 礻 represents the sound.

Components
見 meaning component

見  Meaning component

jiàn, xiàn

  

see

礻 sound component

礻  Sound component

shì

  

show

礻 is a component form of 示.

Evolution

視 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
視 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
視 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
視 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
視 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

视 (視) 

shì

look at, inspect, observe, see; to look at; to regard; to inspect

Most common words with 視
Freq.
Word
Meaning

电视

TV

视频

video

重视

to value

监视

to monitor

视

to look at

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*gijʔ

dzyijX

shì

look, see

*gijʔ-s

dzyijH

shì

look, see


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 74.7717% of movies

442nd most common character in movies

438th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Simplified

视

Unicode

U+8996

Shuowen

“視，瞻也。从見、示。，古文視；眡，亦古文視。”


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