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kàn to look, to watch

9 strokes

Where the shape comes from

A hand, flattened across the top, held over an eye, 目. Shading your eyes to look into the distance.

hand, flattened
eye

Write it

Watch the order first, then trace it with the guide, then write it from memory. The model comes back over your strokes so you can see where the shape drifted.

Press Watch to see the stroke order.

Stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi via Hanzi Writer, Arphic Public License.

Three words that use it

看书kàn shūto read
好看hǎokànnice to look at
看见kànjiànto see

Watch out

The mistake people make

Writing the eye as 日. The eye, 目, has two lines inside.