看 — watch over, see

かん看 watch over

Grade 6 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 9 strokes

U+770B Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1060 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #688 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

watch over
see

word

かん kan On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

看(かん) 板(ばん) kanban signboard 看(かん) 護(ご) kango nursing 看(かん) 護(ご) 婦(ふ) kangofu nurse (female)

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

て手 hand #64

め目 eye #109

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#109 目 eye