搜 sōu
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- Made of
- 扌 hand 叟 old man
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
搜索
sōusuǒ
to search; search
Characters in this word
索 suǒ
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 糸 — silk
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 搜索很快。 Sōusuǒ hěn kuài. The search is very fast.
- 我在搜索地图。 Wǒ zài sōusuǒ dìtú. I am searching the map.
- 请搜索这个词。 Qǐng sōusuǒ zhège cí. Please search for this word.