Read Edit View history 找 zhǎo HSK1 search Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 戈 represents the sound. Components 扌 扌 Meaning component shou, shǒu hand 扌 is a component form of 手. 戈 戈 Sound component gē spear Change in sound 找 and 戈 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese. 找 ʔsruːʔ 戈 *kʷˤaj Historical Pronunciations Old ChineseZhengzhangʔsruːʔ Sources Character origin 漢語多功能字庫Readings & variants Unicode Historical pronunciations Zhengzhang Shangfang