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搜

搜 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

This stroke order diagram is drawn with 12 strokes; it can differ from the count above because the sources use slightly different glyph shapes.

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. さがす。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「手」+音符「叟」。｛搜｝を表す字。もと「叟」が｛搜｝を表す字であったが、手偏を加えた。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

search, seek, investigate

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ソウ
  • シュ
  • シュウ
Kun (native)
  • さが(す)
Other languages
  • 拼音sou1
  • 한글su
  • Hán-ViệtSưu
  • Hán-ViệtSảo

Basics

Strokes
13 strokes
Radical
手(て)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+641C

Components

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Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰扌叟

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Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-3-10
Four Corner
5704.7
Spahn–Hadamitzky
3c7.5
Nelson
1968