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kān

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kān Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
kān | kan1
English translation
to look after
to take care of
to watch
to guard
to see
to look at
to read
to visit
to call on
to consider
to regard as
to treat (an illness)
to depend on
to feel (that)
(after verb) to give it a try
Watch out! (for a danger)
to look, to see; to examine, to scrutinize

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About kān

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Number of strokes

9

Traditional form

kān

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Verb / 动词 dòng cí Dòngcí

Learning hint

Shielding one's eyes  with a hand shǒu to look to the distance

Etymology of kān

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

手目

Explanation

Depicts putting a hand ( shǒu ) over the eyes () and looking ( kān ) into the distance.

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Example sentences using kān

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zài 会议 huìyì shǎng xié zhāo yǎn kān .

He looked sideways at me in the meeting.

yǎn 透过 tòu guò 望远镜 wàng yuǎn jìng kān .

He squinted through the telescope.

孩子 háizi men 举行 jǔxíng 比赛 bǐsài , kān shuí 单足 tiào yuè zuì kuài .

The children had a competition to see who could hop the fastest.

天上 tiān shàng yǒu 这么 zhè me duō de huī yún , kān 今天 jīntiān yāo xià .

There are so many grey clouds I think it will rain today.

直到 zhí dào 看到这幅 huà de 说明 shuōmíng cái lòng dǒng 意思 yìsi .

I didn't understand the drawing until I read the caption.

Words with kān

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
kān to see kān
看看 kàn kan to examine看看 kàn kan
看见 kànjiàn to see看見
看来 kàn lai apparently看來
看上去 kàn shang qu it would appear看上去 kàn shang qu
好看 hǎo kàn good-looking好看 hǎo kàn
看法 kànfǎ view看法 kànfǎ
看出 kàn chū to see看出 kàn chū
看起来 kàn qǐ lai seemingly看起來
观看 guān kàn to watch觀看
查看 chá kàn to look over查看 chá kàn
看好 kàn hǎo bullish看好 kàn hǎo
看待 kàndài to look upon看待 kàndài
看病 kàn bìng to visit a doctor看病 kàn bìng
看书 kàn shū to read看書
看作 kàn zuò to look upon as看作 kàn zuò
看望 kànwàng to visit看望 kànwàng
看不见 kàn bu jiàn unseen看不見
看成 kàn chéng to regard as看成 kàn chéng
收看 shōu kàn to watch (a TV program)收看 shōu kàn
看重 kàn zhòng to care about看重 kàn zhòng
眼看 yǎn kàn soon眼看 yǎn kàn
看中 kàn zhòng to fancy看中 kàn zhòng
照看 zhào kàn to look after照看 zhào kàn

kān Decomposition & Compounds

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kān Decomposition

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