捄
jiùjūqiú HSK3

long and curved

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Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 求 represents the sound.

Components

扌
扌 Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand
求
求 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
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)