见
Meaning
- to see
- to meet
- to appear (to be sth)
Example sentence
参见上文。
See above.
The character 见
见 is 目, an eye, set on a pair of legs: a person looking. Alone it is to meet — 见面, 再见 — and fixed to a verb it reports that the sense arrived: 看见 and 听见 are what 看 and 听, which are only the trying, actually got.
Words containing 见
- 见面 jiàn miàn to meet; to see each other
- 看见 kàn jiàn to see; to catch sight of
- 听见 tīng jiàn to hear
- 再见 zài jiàn goodbye
- 常见 cháng jiàn commonly seen
- 见到 jiàn dào to see
- 见过 jiàn guò to have seen (before)
- 碰见 pèng jiàn to run into
- 意见 yì jiàn idea
- 可见 kě jiàn it can clearly be seen (that this is the case)
- 梦见 mèng jiàn to dream about (sth or sb)