见
jiàn
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 見
To see, or to meet someone. It is the verb of meetings and partings: 明天见 'see you tomorrow', 再见 'goodbye', 见朋友 'to meet a friend'. After 看 'look' and 听 'listen' it shows that the seeing or hearing actually happened: 看见 'to see', 听见 'to hear'.
Thấy; gặp mặt một người nào đó. Là động từ của những lúc gặp và chia tay: 明天见 (mai gặp nhé), 再见 (tạm biệt), 见朋友 (gặp bạn). Đứng sau 看 (nhìn) và 听 (nghe), nó cho biết đã thật sự thấy, nghe được: 看见 (nhìn thấy), 听见 (nghe thấy), giống chữ “thấy” trong tiếng Việt.
VerbRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “见” mean?
To see, or to meet someone. It is the verb of meetings and partings: 明天见 'see you tomorrow', 再见 'goodbye', 见朋友 'to meet a friend'. After 看 'look' and 听 'listen' it shows that the seeing or hearing actually happened: 看见 'to see', 听见 'to hear'.
Is “见” formal or informal?
见 is generally neutral.