HSK 4 · Verbs

看法 kànfǎ “way of looking at a thing” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 看法 means

  1. way of looking at a thing
  2. view
  3. opinion

Measure word 个 gè · 一个看法 yí ge kànfǎ

How to say 看法

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale看kàn4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale法fǎ3rd tone, dipping

看法 in a sentence

  1. 我不太同意你的看法。

    Wǒ bú tài tóngyì nǐ de kànfǎ.

    I don’t quite agree with you.

    Sentence #846072 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 你对这件事有什么看法？

    Nǐ duì zhè jiàn shì yǒu shénme kànfǎ?

    What do you think of it?

    Sentence #9978546 from Tatoeba

  3. 在这个问题上，我们的看法不一样。

    Zài zhè ge wèntí shàng, wǒmen de kànfǎ bù yíyàng.

    Concerning this problem, our views are not the same.

    Sentence #3205577 from Tatoeba

How 看法 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 看 (kàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
看kànto see; to look at
  • 手hand · shǒu
  • 目eye · mù

Memory aidA hand 手 shading the eyes 目: to look.

The character 法 (fǎ) with each of its parts in a different colour
法fǎlaw
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐ
  • 去to go away · qù

Memory aidTraditionally explained as water 氵, which always lies level and so is fair, with 去 (qù) “to remove”, driving the guilty away: law, method.

How to write 看法

看 9 strokes · 法 8 strokes

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看法 (kànfǎ) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 看法 (kànfǎ). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 看法

Words with 看

看kàn · to look看见kànjiàn · to see看病kànbìng · to visit a doctor好看hǎokàn · good-looking看来kànlái · it seems难看nánkàn · ugly看望kànwàng · to visit看不起kànbuqǐ · to look down upon看待kàndài · to regard

Words with 法

办法bànfǎ · method法fǎ · law语法yǔfǎ · grammar法律fǎlǜ · law方法fāngfǎ · method无法wúfǎ · to be unable to合法héfǎ · lawful法院fǎyuàn · court of law法人fǎrén · legal entity非法fēifǎ · illegal

More words: Thinking & Talking

计划jìhuà · plan交流jiāoliú · to exchange解释jiěshì · explanation拒绝jùjué · to refuse考虑kǎolǜ · to think over理解lǐjiě · to comprehend理想lǐxiǎng · an ideal联系liánxì · to contact

FAQs

看法 (kànfǎ) means “way of looking at a thing” or “view”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it kànfǎ: kàn with a 4th tone, then fǎ with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 看法 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 个 (gè). For example, one way of looking at a thing is 一个看法 (yí ge kànfǎ).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type kanfa with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 看法 from the suggestions. Typing kanfa into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
看法 is an HSK 4 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.