搜 — Chinese character
搜
sōu
to seek, to search, to investigate
- Pinyin
- sōu
- Radical
- 64 ⼿ (Hand)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 扌 叟
- Formation
- pictophonetic — hand; meaning component 扌; sound component 叟
- Japanese
- 搜 as a kanji
Common words with 搜
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 搜索 | sōu suǒ | to search (a place, a database, online etc); to search for (sth) |
| 搜集 (蒐集) | sōu jí | to gather; to collect |
| 搜寻 (搜尋) | sōu xún | to search; to look for |
| 搜查 | sōu chá | to search |
| 搜索引擎 | sōu suǒ yǐn qíng | search engine |
| 搜救 | sōu jiù | search and rescue |
| 搜捕 | sōu bǔ | to hunt and arrest (fugitives); to track down and arrest |
| 搜刮 | sōu guā | to rake in (money); to plunder; to milk people dry |
| 搜身 | sōu shēn | to do a body search; to frisk |
| 搜罗 (搜羅) | sōu luó | to gather; to collect |
| 搜括 | sōu kuò | see 搜刮 (sōu guā) |
| 搜证 (蒐證) | sōu zhèng | to gather evidence (in a criminal case) |
English words written with 搜
搜 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 6
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.