Meaning & readings
inspection, regard as, see, look at
Origin
The character 視 combines two components to express the idea of looking and seeing. The right side, 見, is a picture of an eye and directly represents the act of seeing or looking. The left side, 礻, serves as a sound hint that guides pronunciation rather than adding to the meaning. Together, these parts created a character that means to inspect, regard, or look at something, with the visual element of the eye making the core meaning immediately clear.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 礻
- 見
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 11
- Kangxi radical
- 147
- Grade
- Grade 6 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #362 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+08996