観 — outlook, look, appearance

かん観 outlook

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 18 strokes

U+89B3 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #476 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #614 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

outlook
look
appearance
condition
view

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).

観(かん) kan view 観(かん) 光(こう) kankou sightseeing 観(かん) 点(てん) kanten viewpoint 観(かん) 察(さつ) kansatsu observation 観(かん) 客(きゃく) kankyaku audience 客(きゃっ) 観(かん) kyakkan objectivity 観(かん) 戦(せん) kansen watching a game 観(かん) 念(ねん) kannen idea

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).

観(み) る miru to watch

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

𠂉 hairpin

隹 short-tailed bird

みる見 see #147

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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