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
搜集
sōují
to collect
Characters in this word
集 jí
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 隹 — short-tailed bird
- Made of
- 隹 short-tailed bird 木 tree
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 为了写报告，她花了两个月搜集第一手资料。 Wèile xiě bàogào, tā huā le liǎng gè yuè sōují dìyīshǒu zīliào. To write the report, she spent two months collecting first-hand materials.
- 他喜欢到处搜集各地的民间故事。 Tā xǐhuan dàochù sōují gèdì de mínjiān gùshi. He likes to go around collecting folk tales from different places.
- 同学们分头搜集了不少关于环保的资料。 Tóngxuémen fēntóu sōují le bù shǎo guānyú huánbǎo de zīliào. The classmates split up and collected quite a lot of material on environmental protection.
Related words
- 搜 sōu to search
- 搜索 sōusuǒ to search; search
- 搜查 sōuchá to search; to conduct a search
- 搜救 sōujiù search and rescue
- 搜寻 sōuxún to search for; to look for
- 集体 jítǐ group
- 集中 jízhōng to concentrate
- 集合 jíhé to gather
- 集团 jítuán business group
- 收集 shōují to collect
- 采集 cǎijí to collect, to gather
- 聚集 jùjí to gather