in English

jiàn verb HSK 1
to see / to meet / to appear (to be sth) / to interview / opinion / view

Measure word

  • next in sequence; second; the second (day, time etc); secondary; vice-; sub-; infra-; inferior quality; substandard... attested in use
  • diǎn point; dot; drop; speck; o'clock; point (in space or time); to draw a dot; to check on a list; to choose; to order... attested in use

Stroke order

Le caractère 见 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 见 Show the animation
Le caractère 見 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 見, the traditional character: 见 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • “以前我们没在哪儿见过吗?”学生问道。

    "Haven't we met somewhere before?" asked the student.

  • 一会儿见。

    See you later!

  • 上次我见到她的时候,她看上去挺好的。

    She looked well when I last saw her.

  • 云开见天日。

    The clouds opened and the sun shone through.

  • 五成熟牛排见了七成熟牛排为什么不打招呼?两个都不熟。

    Why didn't the half-cooked steak say hello to the nearly-cooked steak when the two saw each other? They both weren't ready.

  • 今晚见吧!一会儿见咯!

    See you tonight! See you soon!

  • 从窗户可以看见高楼。

    The high building can be seen from the window.

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