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Kanji Detail for 顧 - "to look back, to reflect"

顧

  • Meaning

    顧 means "to look back, to reflect." Also associated with to survey.

    1. To look back - To turn around and look.

    2. To survey - To pay attention; to care.

    3. To reflect - To look back on the past; to review.

    4. To care for - To look after; to favor.

    5. On the contrary - Instead; rather.

  • Words using 顧

    • 顧問 こもん Listen adviser; advisor; consultant
    • 顧客 こきゃく Listen customer; client; patron
    • 回顧 かいこ Listen recollecting; reminiscing; looking back
    • 顧客満足 こきゃくまんぞく Listen customer satisfaction

  • Four-character idioms with 顧

    • 一顧傾城 いっこけいせい Listen woman so glamorous as to bring ruin to a country (castle) as its king (lord) is captivated by her beauty; femme fatale
    • 右顧左眄 うこさべん Listen inability to make up one's mind due to worrying about how others will think; hesitation; wavering
    • 左顧右眄 さこうべん Listen looking right and left or all about; vacillation
    • 脚下照顧 きゃっかしょうこ Listen look carefully where your own footsteps fall; seek enlightenment by knowing yourself and not by watching others; know thyself

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    • Verified meaning: to look back, to reflect
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read ぐ, ぐう, こ, こう)
    • Also carries these associations: to survey

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 顧

    Given names 顧(こ)Listen

    Surnames 顧(ぐ)Listen 顧(ぐう)Listen 顧(こう)Listen 顧(こし)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    look back; review; examine oneself; turn around

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    look back; look at; look after

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    surname Gu

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to look back; to look at; to look after

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    To look back. Meaning the heart is attached and cannot forget. As in having left but looking back. A parent's love for a child is called 顧復. An emperor's final edict is called 顧命. All have this meaning. Forgetting and not caring is called 不顧. | To look around carefully. As in 四顧 (look around), 兼顧 (take care of both), 顧全大局 (consider the overall situation) and the like. | To visit. Therefore a guest's visit is called 顧. As in 惠顧 (gracious visit), 枉顧 (honored visit). Shops call customers 主顧. This is the same meaning. | A transitional word. Like "but." | Like "therefore."

  • Onyomi

    tip

    ko(コ) コ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    kaeri.miru(かえり-みる) かえり-みる

  • Strokes

    tip

    21 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    頁 (ogai・ichinokai)

  • Related Keywords

    to look back to survey to reflect admire on the contrary opposite care review consider retrospect examine contemplate evaluate introspect ponder scrutinize attention

Sentences including 顧

  • It was twenty years ago as i look back on it.

  • I looked back upon my happy school days.

  • The old man often looks back on his youth.

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