Characters › 见
4 strokes · radical 见 (see) · traditional 見
7 strokes · simplified 见
A way to remember it
An eye up on a pair of legs — seeing, out and about. Compare 看, where a hand shades the eye: 见 is what you happen to see, 看 is what you set out to look at.
A picture that makes the shape stick — not a claim about the character’s history.
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Shown in simplified. Converting whole words needs one-to-many knowledge this site does not have — 发 is 發 in 出发 but 髮 in 头发 — and a confidently wrong word would be worse than an honest simplified one.
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to see; to meet
jiàn — to see; to meet
Radical 见 (see) · 4 strokes · traditional 見
7 strokes · simplified 见
A way to remember itAn eye up on a pair of legs — seeing, out and about. Compare 看, where a hand shades the eye: 见 is what you happen to see, 看 is what you set out to look at.