Chinese Character Wiki
视

shì

look at

Simplified form of 視. Phonosemantic compound. 見 represents the meaning and 礻 represents the sound.

Components
见 meaning component

见  Meaning component

jiàn, xiàn

  

see

礻 sound component

礻  Sound component

shì

  

show

礻 is a component form of 示.

Evolution

视 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
视 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
视 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
视 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
视 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
视 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

视 (視) 

shì

look at, inspect, observe, see; to look at; to regard; to inspect

视 (眎) 

shì

variant of 視|视[shì]; variant of 示[shì]

视 (眡) 

shì

old variant of 視|视[shì]

Most common words with 视
Freq.
Word
Meaning

电视

TV

视频

video

重视

to value

监视

to monitor

视

to look at

Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 74.7717% of movies

442nd most common character in movies

438th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

視

Unicode

U+89C6


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License