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看透 - see through someone or understand their feelings?


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I recently heard an expression along the lines of

她仿佛看透我

The context indicated, I thought, an understanding of the other person's feelings, but "看透" according to the dictionary definition suggests its meaning may be more along the lines of "see through someone" perhaps if someone has devious motives. Can anyone let me know if both in fact are correct.

Thank you in advance.

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I think 看透 is to "see through" physically and metaphorically, you can also 看透 good intentions as well as evil schemes.

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看透、看穿、看破 —— all mean just "see through", the object can either be someone or something, and there is no limit of bad side/motives or good ones.

However, they are commonly used to mean "to see through someone/something of bad side/motive.

When talk about seeing through good, we usually use 看出/看出来。

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