Character · Actions
見
みて miteいっけん ikkenみかけ mikakeみる miru
see
Composition
Origin
A large eye (目) set on legs (儿): a person given over wholly to looking.
In the thoughts
- 一見ikkenone look
- 見かけmikakeappearance
- 見てmitewatching
- 見るmiruto look at
- 見ぬminunot seeing
- 見ればmirebawhen I look
Proverbs carrying this character
- 018 百聞は一見に如かず Hearing a hundred times is not worth seeing once.
- 062 人は見かけによらぬもの People are not what they seem.
- 089 人の振り見て我が振り直せ Watch others' conduct and mend your own.
- 111 花は盛りに、月は隈なきをのみ見るものかは Should we look at blossoms only in full bloom, at the moon only when it is clear?
- 178 義を見てせざるは勇なきなり To see what is right and not do it is to lack courage.
- 263 見ぬが花 What remains unseen is the flower.
- 292 田子の浦にうち出でて見れば白妙の富士の高嶺に雪は降りつつ Coming out upon Tago Bay, I see: on Fuji's high peak, white, the snow still falling.