Add to Chrome

Chinese grammar

看起来 kànqilai

Looks (like); it seems

看起来 + description: the impression from seeing it.

In stories

  1. 他看起来是个孩子，可是非常厉害。

    齐天大圣 · Great Sage Equal to Heaven HSK 3

  2. 经理也笑着说：“不错，看起来年轻了十岁。”

    再短一点儿 · How to get a haircut in Chinese HSK 3

  3. 江豚的嘴角往上，看起来总像在笑，所以有人叫它“微笑天使”。

    长江十年不打鱼 · Why did China ban fishing on the Yangtze? HSK 4

  4. 它看起来并不大，也不特别漂亮，可是它已经在河上站了一千四百多年。

    赵州桥 · Zhaozhou Bridge, the world's oldest open-spandrel arch HSK 5

Read 齐天大圣

What does 看起来 (kànqilai) mean in Chinese?

Looks (like); it seems. 看起来 + description: the impression from seeing it.

How common is 看起来?

It comes up in 7 readings of the 392 stories and articles in our free Library.

Does it correct my mistakes?

No. It shows which patterns a text uses and what each one does; it doesn’t mark errors. Paste a sentence you wrote to see whether it uses the pattern you meant.

More free tools

Patterns found by our own parser; lines from our free Library.