見学
けんがく · kengaku · JLPT N2 · noun
tour
🔍 見 (see) + 学 (study) = study by seeing things firsthand on a tour
見 means to see or observe, and 学 means to study or learn. A kengaku visit is learning by watching how a place or process actually works.
学 — hands 𦥑 + roof 冖 + child 子
Originally 學, depicting two hands manipulating something (often interpreted as counting rods or the 爻 trigram symbols) under a roof, with a child 子 below — a child learning under instruction. The simplified form 学 replaces the top with a stylized 龸. Core meaning has always been 'to study, learn'.