Chinese Character Wiki
见

jiàn, xiàn

see

Simplified form of 見. Pictograph of a person (儿) using their eye (目) to see (見).

Components
目 iconic,simplified component

目  Iconic Simplified component

mù

  

eye

Depicts an eye.

儿 iconic component

儿  Iconic component

rén, ér, r

  

child

Depicts a person.

Evolution

见 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

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

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
见 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
见 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

见 (見) 

jiàn

see, observe, behold; perceive; to see; to meet; to appear (to be sth); to interview

见 (見) 

xiàn

to appear; also written 現|现[xiàn]

Most common words with 见
Freq.
Word
Meaning

见

to see

看见

to see

意见

idea

再见

goodbye

见到

to see

Component uses

Meaning component in 17 characters (5 verified)

现 规 觉 观 视 览 觅 觑 觐 觎 觊 靓 岘 觇 觋 觏 觌

Sound component in 8 characters (3 verified)

现 舰 苋 砚 笕 岘 蚬 枧

Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 99.6316% of movies

88th most common character in movies

153rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

4

Traditional

見

Unicode

U+89C1


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