看做 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

kànzuò

consider

kàn, kān look

Phonosemantic compound. 目 represents the meaning and 倝 represents the sound.

gàn sunrise

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 倝 than it was in ancient scripts.

目 Meaning component

mù eye

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	khan	kʰˤa[r]	to watch, guard
	khanH	[kʰ]ˤa[r]-s	gaze at

《說文》：“看，睎也。从手下目。，看或从倝。”

做 originated as a variant form of 作.

zuò make

The right half of 作 was corrupted to look like unrelated 古.

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 作 than it was in ancient scripts.

攵 Meaning component

pū tap

夂 is a component form of 攴.

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	ʔsaːɡs