seek

To search for something with eyes  and hands 

Components
爫 meaning component

  Meaning component

zhǎo

  

hand, claw

见 meaning component

  Meaning component

jiànxiàn

  

see

Evolution

觅 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
觅 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
觅 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

seek; search; to seek; to find

() 

old variant of |[mì]

Most common words with 觅
Freq.
Word
Meaning

寻觅

to look for

to seek

觅食

to forage

觅取

to seek

骑驴觅驴

fig. to look for what one already has

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.1784% of movies

2941st most common character in movies

2825th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

Unicode

U+89C5


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