見 — see, look, visible

みる見 see

みる

U+898B Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #22 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #57 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories. Radical #147

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Meanings

see
look
visible

Readings

On'yomi: けん ken
Kun'yomi: み mi

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み mi Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

見(み) る miru to see 見(み) える mieru to be visible 見(み) せる miseru to show 見(み) つける mitsukeru to find 見(み) つかる mitsukaru to be found 見(み) かける mikakeru to catch sight of 見(み) つめる mitsumeru to stare at 見(み) れる mireru to be able to see (colloquial)

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

一(いっ) 見(けん) ikken at first glance 見(けん) 学(がく) kengaku field trip 先(せん) 見(けん) senken foresight 会(かい) 見(けん) kaiken press conference 外(がい) 見(けん) gaiken outward appearance 見(けん) 地(ち) kenchi standpoint 見(けん) 当(とう) kentou estimate 知(ち) 見(けん) chiken knowledge

Words by frequency and grade

127 words

Each dot is a word containing 見: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 54 words have no frequency rank; they sit in the Unranked column.

Appears in idioms

百聞は一見にしかず諺

A hundred hearings are not equal to one seeing

ざまあ見ろ慣用句

look at that sorry state

Stroke order

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Components

Atomic component This kanji has no further breakdown — it's a primitive building block used to compose others.

Used as component in (7)

おや親 parent かん観 outlook おぼえ覚 memorize げん現 present き規 standard し視 inspection らん覧 perusal

Compound ideograph (会意). 目 (eye) above 儿 (person's legs). A large eye atop a walking figure — a person who goes to see.

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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.

#147 見 see