jiùqiú HSK3

long and curved

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand
Sound component
qiú seek

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɡu
ko

說文解字

《說文》:“捄,盛土於梩中也。一曰擾也。《詩》曰:‘捄之陾陾。’从手,求聲。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica