suǒ
large rope
Pictograph of two hands (廾) twisting together a long rope (糸). The meaning later expanded to "search" and "demand".
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[s]ˤak | sak | suǒ | twist a rope |
*[s]ˤak | sak | suǒ | search (v.) |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 44.4978% of movies
709th most common character in movies
805th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+7D22 |
Shuowen | “索,艸有莖葉可作繩索。从糸。杜林說:,亦朱字。” |
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