Zi:见
见(F見) [jiàn] see, catch sight of (看见); 意见 view/opinion/perception; 听见 hear; (radical 147, 见部) [xiàn] 发现/见; cf. 見
2 monosyllabic entries in The ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (namespace Ci):
►¹jiàn* 见[見] {A} v. ①see; catch sight of ‖ Xiạ̌o niǎo bụ̀ ∼ le. 小鸟不∼了。 The little bird has disappeared. ②meet with; be exposed to ③appear to be ④refer to; see; vide ⑤meet; call on ‖ Wǒmen míngtiān qù ∼ shìzhǎng. 我们明天去∼市长。 We'll call on the Mayor tomorrow. ◆b.f. view; opinion ►zhǔjiàn 主见 ◆pref. (indicating passive) ‖ ∼xiào ∼笑 be laughed at
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The simple-form character 见 (4 strokes) is an abbrev. of the full-form character 見 (7 strokes), replacing the full-form component 目 (5 strokes) with its first two strokes, and lengthening the first stroke of 儿 to fill the gap.
The Shuōwén Seal form of 见/見 jiàn ‘see’ combines 目 mù ‘eye/vision’, and 儿 rén ‘person’ (人): a person uses his eyes/vision (in order to see).
Note: Formerly distinguished as 视/視 shì ‘vision/sight’, vs. 见/見 jiàn ‘see’; one can have 视 ‘vision’, but still not 见 ‘see’, as one can have 听/聽 tīng ‘hearing’, but still not 闻/聞 wén ‘manage to hear/understand (recognize sounds)’, or as one can eat, but still not recognize the taste/flavor (cf. 聞); but later such distinctions were confused/lost (DYC); cf. 聞.
Note: In the simple form 见, the full-form component 目 is reduced to its first two strokes (like 冂), and the first stroke of 儿 is lengthened; this is an old 草书 abbrev., seen in 4th c. A.D. (王羲之).
Compare: 现/現 xiàn ‘seem/appear’, formerly wr. 見 (spelling variation 现/见 xiàn is seen in literary usage); 现/現 xiàn ‘glitter/twinkle/shine of jade’.
Compare: 霰(䨷) xiàn ‘(small) hail/sleet’ (雪珠), formerly wr. 䨘.
Compare: 艮(𥃩) gèn ‘turn/look back’.
见/見 is the 147th of the 214 radicals.
►references: Wieger:158c; Henshall:18; Karlgren:AD368; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:6.3664.1; Lindqvist:30; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:007.1.03; Wáng(1993):12; EDOC:0
►components: 冂儿
►Cantonese: gin-
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Unicode: U+89C1
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