尋

See also 寻

Translingual

simpl.		寻
trad.		尋

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 工 (“work”) + 口 (“mouth, talk”) + 又 (“hand”) – to seek out, with hands and mouth (asking).

Note that top hand is not in 又 shape, but rather resembles ヨ; this is an earlier form of hand (fingers); see etymology of 又.

Han character

尋 (radical 41 寸+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 尸一一口戈 (SMMRI), four-corner 1734₆, composition ⿳彐⿰工口寸)

1. seek, search, look for
2. ancient

References

• KangXi: page 295, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7447
• Dae Jaweon: page 586, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 510, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5C0B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

尋 (simplified 寻, jyutping cam4, Yale cham4)

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Japanese

Kanji

尋 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: じん (jin)
• Kun: たずねる (tazuneru), ひろ (hiro), つね (tsune)

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Korean

Hanja

尋 (hangeul 심, revised sim, McCune-Reischauer sim)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

尋 (simplified 寻, pinyin xín (xin2), xún (xun2), Wade-Giles hsin², hsün²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

尋 (tầm, tìm, tùm, chầm)