1. 看
  2. 似

看

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Meta:

  1. 看 is the 76th most frequent character.
  2. 看 has 2 dictionary entries.
  3. 看 appears as a character in 74 words.
  4. 看 appears as a component in 0 characters.

Decomposition:

Once :
看 => 龵, 目
Radical :
看 => 龵 (hand), 目 (eye)
Graphical :
看 => 龵, 口, 二

Pinyin & Meaning:

  1. kan1 - to look after/to take care of/to watch/to guard
  2. kan4 - to see/to look at/to read/to watch/to consider/to regard as/to view as/to treat as/to judge/(after repeated verb) to give it a try/depending on (how you're judging)/to visit/to call on/to treat (an illness)/to look after/Watch out! (for a danger)

Pronunciation Clues:

  1. There are no phonetic clues for this character.

Example Words:

High Frequency

看 

Medium Frequency

好看 
查看 
看来 (看來)
看书 (看書)
看看 
看见 (看見)
观看 (觀看)

似

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Meta:

  1. 似 is the 431st most frequent character.
  2. 似 has 1 dictionary entry.
  3. 似 appears as a character in 28 words.
  4. 似 appears as a component in 0 characters.

Decomposition:

Once :
似 => 亻, 以
Radical :
似 => 亻 (human), 乚 (second), 丶 (dot), 人 (human)
Graphical :
似 => ㇒, 丨, 乚, 丶, 人

Pinyin & Meaning:

  1. si4 - to seem/to appear/to resemble/similar/-like/pseudo-/(more) than

Pronunciation Clues:

  1. Pronunciation clue for 似 (si4): The component 以 is pronounced as 'yi3'. It has the same pinyin final.

Example Words:

High Frequency

似 
似乎 
貌似 

Medium Frequency

似的 
好似 
相似 
看似 
类似 (類似)
Decomposition Levels:
Level 1: Only divided once. So only two components.
Level 2: Radical Decomposition. The character gets decomposed into its lowest radical components. For the complete list visit the Radical wikipedia page.
Level 3: Graphical Decomposition. Shows all the strokes & lowest level of components that make up the character.
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