看
This character is a great picture. A hand,
手,
over an eye, shading it,
目,
means ‘to watch, to see, to examine.’
It’s pronounced KAN and miru in Japanese, and it’s kàn in Chinese.
The archaic characters are very close to the modern one:
.The eye in that second character above is very attentive, don’t you think?
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