蒐
sōu HSK5

collect

搜 sōu frequency
variant 蒐
to search verb
To search for; to look for; to examine or frisk (as for contraband); to collect or gather (information, talent, etc.)

我来搜一下厨房。

wǒ lái sōu yī​xià chú​fáng.

I'll search the kitchen.

他们在我身上什么都没搜到。

tā​men zài wǒ shēn​shang shén​me dōu méi sōu dào.

They didn’t find anything on me.

蒐 sōu
madder
(literary) the madder plant, used for its red dye; same as 茜草 qiàn​cǎo
to hunt
(literary) to hunt during the spring or autumn; also used generally for hunting
to search
to search for; to seek out; to gather or collect; same as 搜 sōu
to conceal
(literary) to hide or conceal
to inspect
to search or frisk someone for contraband; to conduct a search (of a criminal); same as 搜 sōu
to assemble
(literary) to assemble or muster (troops, carriages, etc.); to gather together

Frequency
Character
Written text
6,707th most common 0.103 per million
Word
Movie subtitles
21.8 per million appears in 8% of films
Written text
27.1 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+8490

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingBCC Corpus (BLCU)