Chinese Character Wiki
尋

xún

seek

Original meaning: 

measure of length

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

Evolution

尋 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

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

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
尋 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

寻 (尋) 

xún

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

Most common words with 尋
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 2 characters (0 verified)

鱘 潯

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*sə-l[ə]m (< *-um ?)

zim

xún

warm up

*sə-l[ə]m

zim

xún

measure of 8 chǐ 尺


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

12

Simplified

寻

Unicode

U+5C0B

Shuowen

“尋，繹理也。从工，从口，从又，从寸。工、口，亂也；又、寸，分理之。彡聲。此與同意。度人之兩臂為尋，八尺也。”


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