to see / to meet / to appear (to be sth) / to interview / opinion / view

= + : Joan of Arc (ji) set up a surveillance camera (mnemonic symbol for 见) in the anthill's bathroom (an4). With its help, she can see Sun Wu Kong (儿) stapling (儿) his hat to his head.
to appear / also written 現|现[xian4]

见 character breakdown

variant of 人[ren2] / "person" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 10), occurring in 兒, 兀, 兄 etc
child / son

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: "son" (儿) sounds similar to "Sun" like in "Sun Wu Kong", so it's gonna be represented by the monkey king. Albert Einstein (Ø-) and Sun Wu Kong (儿) are fighting in the space station's kitchen (-Ø2). Their weapons: Albert Einstein has a shovel (乚), and Sun Wu Kong has a banana (丿).
non-syllabic diminutive suffix / retroflex final
radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 13), occurring in 用[yong4], 同[tong2], 網|网[wang3] etc, referred to as 同字框[tong2 zi4 kuang4]

= + : Kind of looks like a map. Zeus found a secret map that tells the location of a golden dinosaur bone in front of the engine, so he took a plough and digged up everything. He actually found a couple of dinosaur bones, but not a golden one.
Variant of 冂, but the left stroke is 丿, not 丨

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: ⺆ looks like a staple, as used in a stapler.

Zeus (ju) wants to plant bananas (丿) in front of the engine ((e)ng1). He uses a plow (㇆) to dig up the earth and puts the bananas inside. To prevent the bananas from falling down, he staples them down with a stapler (⺆).

Characters with 见 as component

to appear / present / now / existing / current

= + : Martin Luther King has a project in which he wants to document the current state of the nation. He has a surveillance camera put up in the anthill's bathroom and interviews Marie Curie about her views about the present time.
old variant of 視|视[shi4]

= + : Sherlock Holmes prepared a trap in the space station's bathroom. He knows that the murderer will pass by there and set up a lot of surveillance cameras to film him. Additionally he lingers around disguised as a monk in a monk's cowl to look at and observe him personally.
to look at / to regard / to inspect

= + : Sherlock Holmes prepared a trap in the space station's bathroom. He knows that the murderer will pass by there and set up a lot of surveillance cameras to film him. Additionally he lingers around disguised as a monk in a monk's cowl to look at and observe him personally.
variant of 視|视[shi4] / variant of 示[shi4]

= + : Sherlock Holmes prepared a trap in the space station's bathroom. He knows that the murderer will pass by there and set up a lot of surveillance cameras to film him. Additionally he lingers around disguised as a monk in a monk's cowl to look at and observe him personally.
to feel / to find that / thinking / awake / aware

= + + : Lately Zeus has been acting strange when he entered the elevator, so there have been a lot of surveillance cameras put up to observe him. Zeus thinks that they are ugly and decorates them with daisies. He also feels that the cameras are emitting radiation to read his mind, so he put up a cooking lid as hat to protect his brain from the radiation.
a nap / a sleep / CL:場|场[chang2]

= + + : There have been reports of illegal sleepovers in Angkor Wat's bathroom, so Joan of Arc wants to get to the bottom of it. She plans to film the intruders with a surveillance camera, but at the same time she may not be discovered, so she hides under a cooking top which is in turn covered up with daisies. However her attempt at filming the sleepovers fail: as the night comes, she falls asleep herself in her hideout.
surname Guan
to look at / to watch / to observe / to behold / to advise / concept / point of view / outlook

= + : In front of the anthill several surveillance cameras are closely observing Gitta Giraffe's boxing training progress. She also closely watches the cameras and practices her punches until she is ready to box every one of them into oblivion.
Taoist monastery / palace gate watchtower / platform
compass / a rule / regulation / to admonish / to plan / to scheme

= + : In front of the Eiffel Tower, each year there are more and more surveillance cameras. A construction worker tries to find his way through this maze, but even his compass is of no use. However he's lucky that Gitta Giraffe is there: she's large enough to just see over the cameras to get an overview and tells the worker the way through the maze.
variant of 規|规[gui1]

= + : In front of the Eiffel Tower, each year there are more and more surveillance cameras. A construction worker tries to find his way through this maze, but even his compass is of no use. However he's lucky that Gitta Giraffe is there: she's large enough to just see over the cameras to get an overview and tells the worker the way through the maze.
amaranth (genus Amaranthus) / Joseph's coat (Amaranthus tricolor) / Chinese spinach (Amaranth mangostanus)

= + : Marie Curie (xi) steals some amaranth (苋) plants from the anthill's bathroom (an4) and replaces them with artificial lawn (艹) to hide the crime. She doesn't know that there are security cameras (见) though.
to look at / to view / to read

= + + : There's an exhibition (览) of kitchen knives (刂) in the anthill (an3), and Sir Lancelot (l) cannot resist but to steal one of the knifes. Unfortunately the robot (大) used his hidden surveillance camera (见) to record the deed.
warship

= + : Joan of Arc (ji) found a very old yellow submarine (舟) in the anthill's bathroom (an4). She is able to retrieve an old surveillance camera (见) from it and can see on the videotape how the submarine was totaled by a warship (舰) during the last war.
(literary) to seek / to find

= + : Marilyn Monroe (mi) is looking for (觅) her razor (爫) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), but she just cannot find it. Finally she looks at the recordings of the bathroom's surveillance camera (见) and finds that it has been stolen by her roomie.
old variant of 覓|觅[mi4]

= + : Marilyn Monroe (mi) is looking for (觅) her razor (爫) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), but she just cannot find it. Finally she looks at the recordings of the bathroom's surveillance camera (见) and finds that it has been stolen by her roomie.
ink-stone
abbr. for 峴首山|岘首山[Xian4 shou3 shan1] / Mt Xianshou in Hubei / steep hill / used in place names
(history) to have an audience with the Emperor

Words with 见

not to see / not to meet / to have disappeared / to be missing
one's own view; definite opinion
one's own view / having definite opinions
not necessarily / not likely
lit. to draw blood on the first prick (idiom) / fig. to hit the nail on the head
short-sighted / suicide
all black, no daylight (idiom); a world without justice
lit. not to shed a tear until one sees the coffin (idiom) / fig. refuse to be convinced until one is faced with grim reality
not found in the classics (idiom); unknown / unfounded / not authoritative
the view of a frog in a well (idiom); fig. a narrow view
to have disappeared / to be missing / nowhere to be found
partial view / limited outlook
to lower oneself to sb's level / to argue with sb less well-informed
lit. to fight it out with sb to see who is best (idiom) / fig. to cross swords with / to lock horns
lit. Even if we don't see each other, don't give up and leave (idiom) / fig. Be sure to wait! / See you there!
you don't release the hawk until you've seen the hare (idiom) / one doesn't act before one is sure to succeed

Sentences with 见

ǎn
lǎo
su̅n
yào
jiàn
zhè
lǎo
lóng
wáng
 
 
kuài
kuài
to̅ng
bào