Thursday 15 December 2011

Look

Reading: KEN, miru

Strokes: 7

Etymology: Eye + bent legs.  Originally from a pictograph of a person bending down to see something.

Mnemonic: BENDING DOWN CLOSELY TO LOOK WITH SEEING EYE



Combinations:

発見 (hakken) discovery
見物 (mimono) spectacle

(Based upon Henshall, 1998)

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