lǎn

to look at

to view; to read

a picture of 览 → to survey broadly, built on see (见)

见 means to see, and 览 extends that to a deliberate, sweeping act of looking — surveying a view or reading through a text. The upper portion of 览 is not a standard named component and mainly shapes the character visually rather than adding a clear second meaning.

To seeSemantic

他每天早上都会浏一遍新闻。

tā měi tiān zǎo shang dōu huì liú lǎn yī biàn xīn wén。

He browses through the news once every morning.

图书馆里有一间专门供人阅报纸的房间。

tú shū guǎn lǐ yǒu yī jiān zhuān mén gōng rén yuè lǎn bào zhǐ de fáng jiān。

In the library there is a room specifically for people to read newspapers.

Words with 览

巴三览四

bā sān lǎn sì

to talk about this and that (idiom); to ramble incoherently

游览

yóu lǎn

to go sightseeing

游览区

yóu lǎn qū

tourist regions

阅览

yuè lǎn

to read

阅览室

yuè lǎn shì

reading room

预览

yù lǎn

preview

饱览

bǎo lǎn

to look intensively

一览

yī lǎn

at a glance

一览无遗

yī lǎn wú yí

be plainly visible

一览无余

yī lǎn wú yú

to cover all at one glance (idiom)

一览众山小

yī lǎn zhòng shān xiǎo

(last line of the poem 望岳 by Tang poet Du Fu 杜甫[Du4 Fu3]) with one look I shall see all the smaller mountains down below (from the summit of Mt Tai 泰山[Tai4 Shan1])

一览表

yī lǎn biǎo

table; schedule; list

More characters with 见