Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 觀

Modern (Beijing) reading: guān

Preclassic Old Chinese: kʷār

Classic Old Chinese: kwān

Western Han Chinese: kwān

Eastern Han Chinese: kwān

Early Postclassic Chinese: kwān

Middle Postclassic Chinese: kwān

Late Postclassic Chinese: kwān

Middle Chinese: kwân

English meaning : to watch, look at, observe

Russian meaning[s]: 1) наблюдать, созерцать; смотреть; 2) обозрение, обзор; внешний вид; 3) взгляды, мнение; идея, представление; [guàn] 1) вышка; терраса; 2) скит; общежитие даосов

Comments: Also read *kʷār-s (MC kwần, Pek. guàn) 'a sight' (during LZ also 'cause to see, show; aspect, scene'.

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 147

Four-angle index: 7420

Karlgren code: 0158 i

Shijing occurrences: 50.2

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