Meaning & readings
outlook, look, appearance, condition, view
On’yomi カン
Kun’yomi み.る、しめ.す
Origin
The character 観 combines two parts: on the left is a sound hint that helps indicate how to pronounce it (roughly "kan"), and on the right is 見, which means "to see" or "to look." The right part carries the core meaning—something about viewing or observing. The left part is there mainly to tell you the pronunciation. Together they create a character meaning "to look at" or "view," where the emphasis is on the act of seeing something and forming an impression of its appearance or condition.
Components
- 雚V
- 見
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 18
- Kangxi radical
- 147
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Grade 4 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #476 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+089B3