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看 — stroke order
Watch how to write 看 (kàn) stroke by stroke. 看 has 9 strokes and means “to look”. It appears in common words such as 看看 (to take a look at) and 好看 (good-looking). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.
Common words with 看
The most common words that use 看 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
看看kànkanto take a look at好看hǎokàngood-looking查看chákànto look over看見kànjiànto see看來kànlaiapparently觀看guānkànto watch
How 看 is written
- Radical
- 目
- Components
- 手 ＋ 目
- Formation
- Ideographic — Shielding one's eyes 目 with a hand 手 to look to the distance.