Taxonomy of meanings for 瞻:　　

  • 瞻 zhān (OC: kljam MC: tɕiɛm) 職廉切 平 廣韻：【瞻視 】
    • LOOK
      • vt[oN]look up; look into the distance
      • vtoNlook at with respect/admiration
      • vtoNimperativelook at!
      • abstract>INVESTIGATE
        • specific>LOOK UP
          • vtoNlook upwards towards something/someone (as in awe), look in front; look into the distance (LISAO 瞻前而顧後)
          • vtoNrespectfullook up to with respect
          • metaphorical>ADMIRE
            • vtoNfigurativelook upwards towards in admiration
      • SURNAMES
        • RIVERS
          • =贍
        • zhānSURVEY
          • vtoNsurvey in an investigative spiritCH

        Additional information about 瞻

        說文解字: 【瞻】，臨視也。从目、詹聲。 【職廉切】

          Criteria
        • 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

        • LOOK UP

          1. The most current general word for looking up is zhān 瞻, but this word typically connotes respect or admiration. See also ADMIRE

          2. Áng 昂 (ant. fǔ 俯 "look down") refers to holding one's head high and pushing out one's chest so as to face upwards in an imposing gesture of authority.

          3. Yǎng 仰 (ant. fǔ 俯 "look down") refers to throwing one's head back, but it does not specifically focus on the act of looking in that position.

          4. Wàng 望 refers to looking upwards or forward into the distance.

          仰視,　仰見,　仰望,　仰觀,　仰察

        • LOOK TO SIDE

          顧 is to turn one's head and look.

          眷 is to turn one's head and look intensely at, often with concern,

          眷言 is a poetic way of saying 眷.,

          顧瞻 is to turn one's head and have a look at.

          顧視 is to turn one's head and examine visually,

          還目 is to to look around,

          反顧 is to look in the opposite direction,

          還望 is to look into the distance in the other direction,

          顧睨 is to peer into the other direction.

          顧望 is to turn one's head and look in the other direction.