qiú

bribe

To beseech with money  also provides the pronunciation

Components
贝 meaning component

  Meaning component

bèi

  

sea shell

求 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

qiú

  

seek

Evolution

赇 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
赇 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
赇 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

qiú

bribe; to bribe

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

7106th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

Unicode

U+8D47


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