览 · lǎn
look at, inspect; perceive
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
look at, inspect; perceive
- Mandarin
- lǎn
- Cantonese
- laam5
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+89C8
- Radical
- 见 · 147
- Strokes
- 9 · Unihan
- Residual
- 5
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
9 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 览
Character connections
History & distinctions
Related forms
覽
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- lǎn
- kCantonese
- laam5
- kDefinition
- look at, inspect; perceive
- kTotalStrokes
- 9
- kRSUnicode
- 147'.5
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+89BD
- kTGH
- 2013:1472
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- lǎn 0673.060
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- lǎn 208.190
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- lǎn(48)