Chinese Character Wiki
求

qiú

seek

Pictograph of a crawling insect. The current meaning "seek" or "beg" is a phonetic loan.

Evolution

求 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
求 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
求 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
求 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
求 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

求  

qiú

seek; demand, request; beseech; to seek; to look for; to request; to demand; to beseech

Most common words with 求
Freq.
Word
Meaning

要求

to request

求

to seek

需求

requirement

追求

to woo

请求

to request

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

赇

Sound component in 7 characters (3 verified)

球 捄 救 裘 俅 逑 赇

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g](r)u

gjuw

qiú

seek


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 85.0873% of movies

321st most common character in movies

312th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+6C42


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