HSK 5 · Verbs

看望 kànwàng “to visit” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 看望 means

  1. to visit
  2. to call on (someone)
  3. to pay a visit to
  4. to see (sb)

How to say 看望

  • 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 fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale望wàng4th tone, falling

看望 in a sentence

  1. 下周我们要去看望我们的老师。

    Xiàzhōu wǒmen yào qù kànwàng wǒmen de lǎoshī.

    We will visit our teacher next week.

    Sentence #782965 from Tatoeba

  2. 我昨天没有去看望父母，今天才去。

    Wǒ zuótiān méiyǒu qù kànwàng fùmǔ, jīntiān cái qù.

    I didn’t visit my parents yesterday; I only went today.

    Sentence #3365882 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 如果我知道你生病了，我会去医院看望你。

    Rúguǒ wǒ zhīdao nǐ shēngbìng le, wǒ huì qù yīyuàn kànwàng nǐ.

    If I’d known you were ill, I would have visited you in hospital.

    Sentence #918530 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 看望 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 望 (wàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
望wàngfull moon
  • 亡death · wáng
  • 月moon · yuè
  • 王king · wáng

Memory aidA person standing gazing at the moon 月 far away: to gaze, to hope.

How to write 看望

看 9 strokes · 望 11 strokes

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

Words related to 看望

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看法kànfǎ · way of looking at a thing看不起kànbuqǐ · to look down upon看待kàndài · to regard

Words with 望

希望xīwàng · to hope失望shīwàng · disappointed盼望pànwàng · to hope for愿望yuànwàng · desire探望tànwàng · to visit (esp. someone ill or elderly)绝望juéwàng · to despair渴望kěwàng · to long for期望qīwàng · to expect欲望yùwàng · desire指望zhǐwàng · to count on

More words: Common Verbs

断duàn · to break鼓掌gǔzhǎng · to applaud戒jiè · to give up (a habit)集合jíhé · to gather靠kào · to lean on扩大kuòdà · to expand亮liàng · bright碰pèng · to touch

FAQs

看望 (kànwàng) means “to visit” or “to call on (someone)”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it kànwàng: kàn with a 4th tone, then wàng with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 看望 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type kanwang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 看望 from the suggestions. Typing kanwang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
看望 is an HSK 5 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.