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拝見 (はいけん) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
Common word› JLPT N4 › Freq. Frequency Top 10,000 Conjugation 拝見する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 拝はい 見けん する 拝はい 見けん しない Polite 拝はい 見けん します 拝はい 見けん しません Past polite 拝はい 見けん しました 拝はい 見けん しませんでした Past 拝はい 見けん した 拝はい 見けん しなかった Te-form 拝はい 見けん して 拝はい 見けん しないで Desire 拝はい 見けん したい 拝はい 見けん したくない Potential 拝はい 見けん できる 拝はい 見けん できない Passive 拝はい 見けん される 拝はい 見けん されない Causative 拝はい 見けん させる 拝はい 見けん させない Causative passive 拝はい 見けん させられる 拝はい 見けん させられない Volitional 拝はい 見けん しよう Polite volitional 拝はい 見けん しましょう Imperative 拝はい 見けん しろ 拝はい 見けん するな Conditional 拝はい 見けん すれば 拝はい 見けん しなければ Tara conditional 拝はい 見けん したら 拝はい 見けん しなかったら
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I have read your letter (humble).
Usage patterns 〈 物もの 〉 を 拝はい 見けん する to (humbly) look at/see something
I had the honor of looking at my teacher's work.
〈 物もの 〉 を 拝はい 見けん させていただく to humbly ask permission to look at something
Could I take a look at the documents?
お 〈 物もの 〉 を 拝はい 見けん する to politely look at someone's (belonging), often in business settings
Let me have a look at your business card.
Expressions お 手て 並な み 拝はい 見けん let's see what you've got; show me what you've got Politeness ご覧になる is the honorific form used for a respected person's act of seeing, while 拝見 is the humble form used for the speaker's own act of seeing.
ご覧なさい politely commands someone else to look, while 拝見する is the humble form used when speaking modestly about one's own act of looking.
Don't confuse with 拝聴 is the humble word for 'to listen to', while 拝見 is the humble word for 'to look at' — learners often mix up which sense goes with which of these 拝- verbs.
拝読 is the humble word for 'to read', whereas 拝見 covers the broader act of 'looking at/seeing' something, so they are not interchangeable despite the shared 拝- prefix.
拝見する is the humble verb for 'to look at/see' something, while 拝む covers a wider range including worship and begging, not just humbly viewing.
Written forms 拝はい 見けん Usage 100%
Standard kanji spelling for the humble expression.
拜はい 見けん
out-dated kanji form
Out-dated kanji variant; not used in modern Japanese.
Etymology Compound of 拝 (hai, 'worship, humbly') and 見 (ken, 'see'). The kanji 拝 adds a humble nuance to the act of seeing.
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plain
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拝見する is the humble form used when the speaker looks at or is shown something, while 見る is the plain, neutral verb.
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.
