Example sentences

zàijiàn

Goodbye!

zàijiànmíngtiānjiàn

Bye, see you tomorrow.

The story behind the character

目 (eye) over 人 (person). A person with a wide-open eye. That's 见. Xu Shen wrote 见, 视也: "to see." The simplest compound there is, no trick to it.

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