qiú

collect

Components

Meaning component
chuò walk

walk

Sound component
qiú seek

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartgjuwɡ(r)ucome together; mate (n.)
Zhengzhangɡu

說文解字

斂聚也。从辵求聲。《虞書》曰:“㫄逑孱功。”又曰:“怨匹曰逑。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica