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Definition
kàn:* 使视线接触人或物。 ～见。～书。～齐。 * 观察，判断。 ～病。观～。～好（根据市场情况，估计某种商品好销）。～透（透彻深刻地了解或认识。亦称"看破"、"看穿"）。～风使舵。 * 访问，拜望。 ～望。～朋友。 * 照应，对待。 ～重（ zhòng ）。～轻。～待。 * 想，以为。 ～法。 * 先试试以观察它的结果。 做做～。 * 提防，小心。 别跑，～摔着。 * 安排。 ～茶。～酒。～座。 kān:* 守护，监视。 ～护。～押。～门。～青（看守正在结实还未成熟的庄稼）
look, see; examine, scrutinize
Structure
Related substructures
Precursors
Small Seal Script
Standardized 221–206 BCE (Qin); developed earlier in Qin
The standardized seal script promulgated after Qin’s unification, based on earlier Qin seal forms and used as an empire-wide norm.Wikipedia ->
Transmitted Pre-Qin Forms
Pre-Qin forms (≤221 BCE) / late 2nd century BCE onward (Han → later textual transmission)
Pre-Qin character forms preserved through later textual transmission (often discussed as the 'Old Text' / guwen tradition). Shaped by repeated copying, they can diverge from excavated Warring States materials.Wikipedia ->
Liushutong Seal Forms
Pre-Qin to Han seal-type forms (≤220 CE) / compiled 1661 (Min Qiji); collated and printed 1720 (Bi Hongshu)
A ten-volume compendium of seal-script variants arranged by the rhymes of Hongwu Zhengyun: each head character gives its Shuowen small seal form, then variants gathered from guwen, zhouwen, bronze inscriptions and Qin–Han seals. Long a standard reference for seal carvers, but the forms are compiled rather than excavated and were collected with little vetting, so many are of doubtful authenticity.Wikimedia Commons ->