Taxonomy of meanings for 睹 / 覩:　　

  • 睹 dǔ (OC: k-laaʔ MC: tuo) 當古切 上 廣韻：【同覩 】
    • DECIDE
      • vtoNjudge; decide on
    • MEET
      • vtoNmeet 相睹
    • READ
      • vtoNread
    • SHOW
      • viappear, show oneself
    • VISIT
      • viactsee each other, get together, meet to talk
      • vt(oN)visit others ???
      • vtoNvisit
  • 睹 dǔ (OC: k-laaʔ MC: tuo) 當古切 上 廣韻：【見也當古切十一 】
    • LOOK
      • vtoNfondlylook at; look at fondly, German liebaeugeln
      • vtoNlook at
      • vt(oN)figurativelook at so as to examine (past behaviour etc)
    • SEE
      • vtoNsee clearly, make out, catch sight of; notice, perceive; be able to recognise
      • vtoNpassivebe seen clearly 可睹
      • vtoSsee that S
      • vtoNPab{S}realise that S, see that S
      • vt+prep+Nsee clearly
  • 覩 dǔ (OC: k-laaʔ MC: tuo) 當古切 上 廣韻：【見也當古切十一 】
  • dǔUNDERSTAND
    • vtoSrealise that SCH

Additional information about 睹

說文解字: 【睹】，見也。从目、者聲。 【當古切】 【覩】，古文从見。 〔小徐本「古文」下有「睹」。〕

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  • READ

    1. The general word for reading out a written text (there was probably no silent reading in pre-Buddhist China) was dú 讀. See Platform Sutra Tanjing 2.8.4 for a nice example. NB: reciting texts for oneself was a way of studying these, so that by Han times the word sometimes came close to meaning "study".

    2. Lǎn 覽, guān 觀, and dǔ 睹 can occasionally refer to the running one's eyes over a text (probably mumbling it in the process, but there is no evidence whatever to substantiate this assumption) and thus reading it.

    3. Jiàn 見 can occasionally refer to the looking at a text to see what it says.

    4. Fēng 諷 refers to the current practise of reading a certain text.

  • SEE

    1. The clearly dominant word is jiàn 見 (ant. méng 矇 "unable to see") which refers to any act of successful visual perception.

    2. Míng 明 (ant. máng 盲 "unable to see at all") refers to clarity of general vision and is predominantly used in transferred senses.

    3. Dǔ 睹 refers to clear perception at a given time.

    4. Chá 察 refers to discriminating analytic perception.

  • LOOK

    1. The current word for looking at something close in general is shì 視, but the word can also occasionally refer specifically to looking down rather than up. (See also SEE.)

    2. Wàng 望 (and the much rarer tiào 眺 / 覜 and zhān 瞻 ) refer to looking at something from a distance (often with connotations of admiration), and the connoted direction is always upwards.

    3. Pàn 盼 refers to looking around with the expectation of finding something.

    4. Jiān 監 refers to looking at something so as to ascertain something about it or on the basis of it.

    5. Gù 顧 adds to the notion of looking at something the turning of one's head, or one's attention, from something to what is being looked at. Juàn 眷 is intensitive for gù 顧.

    6. Dǔ 睹 / 者 plus 見 on-right adds to the notion of looking at something the connotation of intense pleasure and typically the hope of establishing personal or erotic contract with the person one looks at by looking at her.

    7. Dì 睇 and lài 睞 are rare words referring to a flirtatious quick glance.

    8. Nì 睨 and miǎn 眄 refers to looking at someone sidewise as a show of demonstrative disrespect.

    9. Yáng 仰 (ant. fǔ 俯 "look down") refers to throwing one's head back and look up. See LOOK UP