见
jiànxiàn HSK1

see

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approved by Marcus Ngai · Mar 23, 2026, 08:59 AM · Reviewed by Marcus Ngai on Mar 23, 2026, 08:59 AM

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

Components

目
mù eye

Depicts an eye.

卩
卩 Iconic component
jié person kneeling

Depicts a person.

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

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode