看 kàn
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 目 — eye
- Made of
- 手 hand 目 eye
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
看到
kàndào
to see
Characters in this word
到 dào
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 刂 — knife
- Made of
- 至 reach, arrive 刂 knife
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 我在门口看到老师了。 Wǒ zài ménkǒu kàndào lǎoshī le. I saw the teacher at the entrance.
- 我看到一只狗。 Wǒ kàndào yì zhī gǒu. I saw a dog.
- 他没看到我。 Tā méi kàndào wǒ. He didn't see me.
Related words
- 好看 hǎokàn good-looking, nice
- 看 kàn to look, to watch; to read
- 看病 kànbìng to see a doctor
- 看见 kànjiàn to see, to catch sight of
- 到 dào to arrive, to reach; to
- 得到 dédào to get, to obtain
- 回到 huídào to return to
- 来到 láidào to arrive, to come to
- 听到 tīngdào to hear
- 找到 zhǎodào to find
- 电影 diànyǐng film, movie
- 好听 hǎotīng pleasant to hear