Wu Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Eye (mù) Look; Kangxi stroke count: 9; Page 803, Entry 07 Pronounced kan Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters): To gaze. Guangya (Broad Refinements): To view. Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi), Biography of Zhou Fang: To look for an opening or gap. Rhapsody on the Candle in the Presence of Emperor Wen: Shining back within the golden screen, silently the two look at one another. History of Song (Songshi), Treatises on Rites: On the day before the great banquet, the Emperor inspects the various performances from the palace hall, a practice referred to as the independent viewing. History of Liao (Liaoshi), Treatises on Geography: In the newly constructed Southern Capital of the Great Dongdan Kingdom, the city was divided into north and south districts; a viewing tower was built in the center of the market, with people gathering at the southern market in the morning and the northern market in the evening. Also a surname. See Surname Garden (Xingyuan). Also pronounced kan (falling tone). Same meaning. Also rhyming as qian (level tone). In the poem Longing for Each Other by Wu Maiyuan: Throughout the spring I do not raise my sleeves, when autumn falls, how can I bear to look again? Once seen, I wish to speak my heart, but the lord's gate is already behind nine barriers. Barriers (guan) is pronounced juan. Also rhyming as qian (falling tone). In the poem In Praise of the Yi Pavilion by Su Zhe: A thousand miles of longing for the mountains appears in my dreams, I only wish to resign from my prefecture and return to look upon them. Shuowen Jiezi: Composed of the character for hand placed below the character for eye. Xu states: It means to shade the eyes with the hand to gaze into the distance. A duplicate character is written as. Common variant form is written as.