Zi:看
看 [kàn] look; 看見 see; 看样子 it seems; 看书 read/study a book, 看懂 read and understand [kān] watch/guard/tend (看守, 看护); (HDZ:) …
2 monosyllabic entries in The ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (namespace Ci):
►¹kàn* 看 {A} v. ①see; look at; watch ②read ③think; consider ④look upon; regard ⑤treat ⑥look after ⑦call on; visit ⑧depend on ⑨mind; watch out ⑩present (tea/wine/etc.) ⑪... and see ‖ Wǒ bùzhīdào xiándàn, nǐ chángcháng ∼. 我不知道咸淡, 你尝尝∼。 I don't know whether it's salty enough. Taste it and see. ⑫Look! (expressing surprise/rebuke) ‖ Nǐ ∼ nǐ! 你∼你! Look at yourself!
►¹kān 看 {C} v. ①look after; tend ②keep under surveillance
The Shuōwén Seal form of 看 kàn ‘look/see’ combines 手 (shǒu) ‘hand’, and 目 (mù) ‘eye’; hands raised to the forehead shield the eyes from bright sun, so that one can look/see clearly/afar; formerly also wr. 𥉏, with 倝 gàn ‘shining rays of dawn’ (phonosemantic).
Note: SW glosses 看 with 睎 xī (睎望: 眺望, 瞭望; cf. 希望), which is itself glossed 望 wàng ‘look at something (from) far off’.
Compare: 见/見, 观/觀, 视/視.
Compare: 看 kàn/kān ← MC /khɑns/khɑn/; 观/觀 guān/guàn ← MC /kuɑn/kuɑns/; 见/見 jiàn/xiàn ← MC /kins/ɣins/ (SBGY).
Compare: 阚/闞(𨶞) kàn ‘look upon from above/afar’ ← MC /khɑms/ (SBGY), later wr. 瞰.
HDZ: 看 : kàn : 以手加额遮目而望; 使视线接触人或物; 视, 观察; 观赏; 估量; 访问, 探望; 看待, 对待 (另眼相看; 刮目相看); 照料, 料理; 诊治; 听, 闻; 决定于; 注意, 小心; (助词) (省略) 看怎么样; (姓) • kān : 守护, 看守 (看护, 看门)
►references: Guǎngyùn:123.23,401.47; Wieger:48c; Karlgren:AD644,GSR142a; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:4.2474.3; Lindqvist:37; Mathews:3251; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:803.07; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:120.0.01; EDOC:1
►components: 手目
►Cantonese: hon\ hon-
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