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看望

kàn wàng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

看望 (kàn wàng) means "to pay a visit to; to see (sb)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 看望 means

1. to pay a visit to; to see (sb)

The characters in 看望

• 看kànto see; to look at; to read; to watch
• 望wàngfull moon; to hope; to expect

Sounds the same

Read kàn wàng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 瞰望to overlook; to watch from above

Where 看望 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · gāng–kě (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read kàn wàng correctly.
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