Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/ken ~ m-kjen

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ken ⪤ mkyen (Coblin, 1986)
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *ken ⪤ *m-kyen (Matisoff, STEDT); *(m-)kyen (Benedict, 1972; Chou, 1972; Coblin, 1986)

For a similar semantic development, compare 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to see
 * 2) to know

Descendants

 * Old Chinese:
 * perhaps also
 * (見 in the oracle bone script - eye on person) 見-oracle.svg
 * Middle Chinese:, , ,
 * perhaps also
 * (見 in the oracle bone script - eye on person) 見-oracle.svg
 * Middle Chinese:, , ,
 * (見 in the oracle bone script - eye on person) 見-oracle.svg
 * Middle Chinese:, , ,


 * Modern Mandarin
 * Beijing: (jiàn, ),  (xiàn, ),  (qiàn, ),  (xiǎn, )
 * Himalayish
 * Tibeto-Kanauri
 * Bodic
 * Tibetan
 * Written