Hand, we learnt in previous section.
From left to right
Big seal, small seal, and clerical scripts
Eye, we learnt too in previous section
From left to right
Big seal, small seal, and clerical scripts
Put the two together, we get a new character: See or Look
The evolution of character See
From left to right
Big seal, small seal, and clerical scripts
Putting your hand on your eyes is See.
Famous Monkey King is seeing or looking forward
The pinyin of character See or Look：Kan4.
Explanation
Big seal script of character See or Look: The top left is character hand; the bottom right is character Eye.
Small seal script of character See or Look: Similar to big seal script, but the top hand middle line turns twice to left in order to give more space for the character Eye in the bottom.
Clerical script of character See or Look: The middle stroke of character Hand becomes a falling down left stroke, to give more space for the character Eye on the bottom.
Note：
It is ideogram character which is formed by two pictogram characters, here are Hand, and Eye, both have certain shapes, drawable. The new character See or Look is to describe an action (verb) without certain shape. To make a compound character from two independent character is the popular way in Chinese to expend its express verbs, adjectives which have normally no shape.
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