Chinese Character Wiki

覽

lǎn

look at

Phonosemantic compound. 見 represents the meaning and 監 represents the sound.

Components
見 meaning component

見  Meaning component

jiàn, xiàn

  

see

監 sound component

監  Sound component

jiān, jiàn

  

watch carefully

Evolution

覽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
覽 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
覽 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
覽 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

览 (覽) 

lǎn

look at, inspect; perceive; to look at; to view; to read

Most common words with 覽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

展览

to exhibit

浏览

to skim over

游览

to tour

博览会

exposition

展览会

show

Component uses

Sound component in 3 characters (0 verified)

攬 纜 欖

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.0959% of movies

2199th most common character in movies

1886th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

21

Simplified

览

Unicode

U+89BD

Shuowen

“覽，觀也。从見、監，監亦聲。”


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