sōu
collect
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
sōu
collect, gather, assemble; seek; spring hunt; assemble for war; madder (Rubia cordifolia); to hunt for; to gather; to collect
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
6707th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+8490 |
Shuowen | “蒐，茅蒐，茹藘。人血所生，可以染絳。从艸，从鬼。” |
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