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ご覧 (ごらん, goran) Japanese meaning: (please) try to | Kotomora
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Just try thinking about it.
Expressions ご 覧らん なさい please look; please see · see; I told you so · please try to do ご 覧らん になる see; look at; watch · try doing ごらんください please take a look; please see Kanji 御 honorable, manipulate, govern Related words ご 覧らん なさい ご覧 is a shortened form of ご覧なさい, which is a more explicit and slightly more formal imperative.
見み る 見る is the plain verb 'to see/look/watch'. ご覧 is its honorific equivalent, used to show respect to the person performing the action.
Politeness 見る is the plain, neutral verb 'to see/look/watch', while ご覧 is its honorific form used to show respect toward the person doing the seeing.
拝見する is the humble form of 見る used when the speaker is the one looking, whereas ご覧 is the honorific form used for someone else's act of looking.
Written forms ご 覧らん Usage 62%
Standard kanji spelling; widely used in polite and honorific contexts.
ごらん Usage 31%
Kana spelling is very common, especially in casual or informal writing.
御ご 覧らん Usage 7%
Full kanji spelling; less common in modern writing.
Etymology Honorific prefix ご (御) + 覧 (らん, 'look, see'), originally from the verb 見る. The form ご覧 is a contraction of ご覧なさい.
