Chinese Character Wiki
眎

shì

look at

Phonosemantic compound. 目 represents the meaning and 示 represents the sound.

Components
目 meaning component

目  Meaning component

mù

  

eye

示 sound component

示  Sound component

shì

  

show

Evolution

眎 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
眎 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
眎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
眎 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
眎 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

眎  

shì

look at, inspect, observe, see

视 (眎) 

shì

variant of 視|视[shì]; variant of 示[shì]

Most common words with 眎
Freq.
Word
Meaning

电视

TV

视频

video

重视

to value

监视

to monitor

视

to look at

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 74.7717% of movies

442nd most common character in movies

438th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+770E

Shuowen

“視，瞻也。从見、示。，古文視；眡，亦古文視。”


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