sōu
search
Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 叟 represents the sound. Originally written as 叟.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 搜
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to search (a place) | ||
to search | ||
to search | ||
to search | ||
to gather |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*sru | srjuw | sōu | search |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 29.6332% of movies
1072nd most common character in movies
1564th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+641C |
Shuowen | “，眾意也。一曰求也。从手，叜聲。” |
Sources
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