Chinese Character Wiki
寻

xún

seek

Original meaning: 

measure of length

Simplified form of 尋. Pictograph of two outstretched arms measuring length. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Evolution

寻 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
寻 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
寻 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
寻 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
寻 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
寻 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

寻 (尋) 

xún

seek, search, look for; ancient; to search; to look for; to seek

Most common words with 寻
Freq.
Word
Meaning

寻找

to seek

寻

to search

寻求

to seek

寻常

usual

搜寻

to search

Component uses

Sound component in 4 characters (0 verified)

荨 鲟 浔 彟

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 48.2941% of movies

904th most common character in movies

962nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Traditional

尋

Unicode

U+5BFB


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License