Number:
692
覧 view
ONYOMI: RAN
The vassal picked up his rifle and RAN to look and view the intruders.
DESCRIPTION: -
JUKUGO:
- 展覧会 ( てんらんかい )
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an art show or art exhibition.
展 (exhibit) + 覧 (view) + 会 (big meeting) = 展覧会 (exhibition)
- 御覧 ( ごらん )
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a formal way of asking your superior to view something. either 'ごらん ください' or 'ごらん に なる.'
(F)
御 (the honorific "o") + 覧 (view) = 御覧 (please look sir)
- 博覧会 ( はくらんかい )
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a GIANT exposition. Not like, "Cezanne's greatest fuckin' paintings all up in here festival" but huger - like a World's Fair.
To break it down:
博覧会 (biggest kind of expo )
展示会（てんじかい＝trade show)
展覧会 （てんらんかい＝art exhibition)
博 (museum /extensive) + 覧 (view) + 会 (big meeting) = 博覧会 (exposition)
LOOKALIKES:
| Meaning | Hint | Radical | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 緊 | tense | STRING | 糸 |
| 監 | oversee | PLATE | 皿 |
| 堅 | solid, steadfast | EARTH | 土 |
| 賢 | clever | MONEY | 貝 |
| 覧 | view | LOOK | 見 |
I pull the STRING until it's very tense.
You oversee the PLATE (you're a waiter)
The EARTH is very solid.
You gotta be clever to get MONEY.
You view things by LOOKING at them, dumbass.