Definition
睹 is a literary verb meaning 'to see' or 'to witness'. You'll rarely find it alone in modern spoken Chinese — it almost always appears in fixed expressions and compounds like 目睹 ('to witness with one's own eyes'), 有目共睹 ('obvious to all'), and 睹物思人 ('to see a thing and think of the person'). In formal or classical contexts, 睹 carries the same gravity as 'behold' or 'set eyes on' in English.
v.
to seeto witness (literary / in compound expressions)
Examples
- 。Zhòngrén qīnyǎn mùdǔ le nà chǎng shìgù.Everyone witnessed the accident with their own eyes.
- 。Tā de chénggōng yǒu mù gòng dǔ.His success is obvious to all.
- 睹,。dǔ wù sī rén, tā bùjīn liúxià le yǎnlèi.Seeing the object and thinking of the person, he couldn't help but shed tears.
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