いっけん
Meanings
Noun
Verb (する, transitive)
1. look; glimpse; glance
I understood it the moment I took a glance.
Adverb
2. apparently; seemingly; at first glance; on the face of it
At first glance, it looks like they are having a conversation, but it is not actually a conversation.
Archaic
Noun
Verb (する, transitive)
3. first meeting
Pitch accent
い
っけん
Used in vocabulary (3 in total)
seeing is believing; one eye-witness is better than many hearsays; a picture is worth a thousand words
at a glance; at first sight
well-informed opinion
Examples (13 in total)
I understood it the moment I took a glance.
It seems contradictory at first glance.
Boston is worth seeing.