jiù

long and curved

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

求 sound component

  Sound component

qiú

  

seek

Evolution

捄 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

jiù

long and curved

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jiù

variant of [jiù]

Most common words with 捄
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to save

拯救

to save

救命

Save me!

救援

to save

救助

aid

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 71.8725% of movies

352nd most common character in movies

872nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+6344

Shuowen

“捄,盛土於梩中也。一曰擾也。《詩》曰:‘捄之陾陾。’从手,求聲。”


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