meaning
看、見、觀察、檢視、檢查、閱讀；視覺的；眼睛、視覺器官；（前動詞）嘗試、試圖
see also
semantic space · lipamanka
lukin is both passive seeing and active watching. it can also mean something that sees, like eyes or a camera. lukin is also used as a preverb that means to "try" to do something. In practice, oko usually occupies the same semantic space of lukin, but speakers of Romance languages who learn toki pona are likely to use "oko" more than "lukin" to mean "eye." There are also a handful of speakers that only use oko, but only using lukin is far more common.
pu verbatim
- NOUN eye
- VERB to look at, see, examine, observe, read, watch
- PRE-VERB to seek, look for, try to
ku translations
see100 observe92 look at86 sight85 gaze83 observation83 check77 view74 scan67 watch65 visual64 examine60 inspection60 vision60 notice53 appearance50 attention50 surveillance50 examination47 detect46 assess40 stare38 perceive36 perception36 try36 glance33 impression33 reading31 regard (v)29 apparent27 read27 visible27 eye26 seek26 encounter25 investigation25 monitor25
usage
core · 99% usage
found in pu
coined pre-pu
origin
巴布亞皮欽語 · lukim ‘看、看見、觀察’
英語 · look ‘看’
英語 · him ‘他（受格）’
coined by jan Sonja
listen
kala Asi
jan Lakuse
commentary
不論 pu 出版前後，說話者一般認為「lukin」和「oko」是意思各異的單詞。這兩個單詞在 pu 中為同義詞。說話者將它們視為同義詞時，一般不使用「oko」，反而一律使用「lukin」。作前動詞「嘗試」時，「alasa」比「lukin」更常用。在 pu 中，只有「lukin」有此釋義。
sitelen pona
lukin眼睛的象形；對照布利斯符號「眼睛」
sitelen sitelen
sitelen jelo
👀
sitelen Emosi
👀
ucsur
U+F192E