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见jiàn

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Shuowen

见 (jiàn): The character 见 shows a person with an eye above them, representing the act of seeing. The bottom part is a simplified person (儿) and the top is an eye (目). In the oracle bone form, this character clearly depicts a person opening their eye to look at something. This character is one of the most pictographic in Chinese, directly showing the human eye in action. The form shows a person with a large eye, the organ of sight, the act of looking made visible. This character captures the essence of vision - the eye of a person observing the world.

Pinyin

jiàn· HSK 1