jiàn, xiàn
see
Pictograph of a person (儿) using their eye (目) to see (見).
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ˤen-s | kenH | jiàn | see (v.) |
*N-[k]ˤen-s | henH | xiàn | appear |
*m-[k]ˤen-s | henH | xiàn | cause to appear, introduce |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 99.6316% of movies
88th most common character in movies
153rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+898B |
Shuowen | “見,視也。从儿,从目。” |
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