Kanji Detail of 看
看
| Level: | N1 Mid |
| Strokes: | 9 |
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The kanji 看 means "to look," "to watch," "to observe," or "to examine." It implies a careful and attentive act of looking, often with the intention of understanding or assessing something.
・On-yomi (音読み): カン (kan) ・Kun-yomi (訓読み): み (mi) (as in 見る - 看る, to see/look)
⚫︎看護師 Translation: Nurse (literally "nurse" or "person who watches over health") ⚫︎見学 Translation: Field trip; Observation (literally "to see" + "to study") ⚫︎看病 Translation: Nursing care (literally "to watch over" + "illness")
Unfortunately, I cannot provide any information regarding the correspondence of this kanji character with Vietnamese.
The kanji 看 is a phono-semantic compound (形声文字 - けいせいもじ). The left side is a part of the radical "目" (め - eye), which suggests the meaning, and the right side is "干" (かん - kan), which is a phonetic component, representing the sound. This combination visually represents the act of using the eyes (目) to carefully observe or watch something.