Memory phrase for the character: 视

视

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Meaning

to look at, to regard, to inspect

Pronunciation

shì

Explanation

Left: to show 礻/示 (image of an altar 丁 with a sacrifice 一 and dripping blood 八), right: to see 见/見 (an eye 目 on legs 儿 = looking around)

Mnemonic

When the shown is seen by you, then you: look at it.

Radicals

示	to show, altar	Shows a simple altar 丁 with a sacrifice 一 and blood 八 is trickling down. Thus the meanings: to show and altar.
見	to see	The wandering eye 目 on legs 儿 means to see. It was simplified to: 见.

Vocabulary

重视	zhòng shì	to attach importance to sth; to value
藐视一切	miǎo shì yī qiè	to look down upon everything
藐视	miǎo shì	to despise; to look down on
觑视	qù shì	to look; to gaze
视如敝屣	shì rú bì xǐ	to regard like a pair of worn-out shoes; to look on sth as worthless
窥视	kuī shì	to peep at; to spy on; to peek
鄙视	bǐ shì	to despise; to disdain; to look down upon
俯视	fǔ shì	to overlook; to look down at
透视	tòu shì	to see through; perspective; to examine by fluoroscopy (i.e. X-ray)
电视机	diàn shì jī	television set
注视	zhù shì	to watch attentively; to gaze
注视	zhù shì

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