看见

kànjiàn

to see; to catch sight of

Type: VerbsHSK 1
Character origin

看 (to look) + 见 (to see). A compound verb showing the act of looking has succeeded — managing to see.

Did you know?

It's an example of 'verb + resultative complement'. Similar ones are 听到 (to hear, to listen and catch it) and 买到 (to manage to buy).

Radicals it's made of
shǒuhand
eye
eye
érlegs
Example sentence

我看见他了。

Wǒ kànjiàn tā le.

I saw him.

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