搜

See also: 捜

Translingual

Japanese	捜
Simplified	搜
Traditional	搜

Alternative forms

• Note that the traditional form contains 𦥑 (7 strokes) while Japanese kyūjitai, Korean Hanja, Vietnamese Nom and mainland China's standardized form ((deprecated template usage) 新字形, Xin Zixing) contains 臼 (6 strokes) instead. Both of these forms are encoded under the same code point. This character may appear to be either 搜 or 搜 depending on the fonts available.
• A CJK compatibility ideograph exist at U+FA8E for the alternative Korean form which contains 𦥑 (7 strokes).

Han character

搜 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+10 in traditional Chinese, 手+9 in simplified Chinese, 13 strokes in traditional Chinese, 12 strokes in simplified Chinese, cangjie input 手竹難水 (QHXE), four-corner 5704₇, composition ⿰扌⿱⿻𦥑丨又(HT or U+FA8E) or ⿰扌⿱⿻臼丨又(GJKV))

Related characters

• 捜 (Japanese shinjitai)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 447, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12486
• Dae Jaweon: page 797, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1919, character 7
• Unihan data for U+641C

• Unihan data for U+FA8E

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (叟) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
㮴	*suːw
艘	*suːw, *sɯːw
嫂	*suːwʔ
瞍	*sɯːw, *suːʔ
謏	*slɯːwʔ, *suːʔ, *suːs, *srɯwɢ
叜	*sluːʔ
叟	*suːʔ
傁	*suːʔ
廋	*suːʔ, *sru
醙	*suʔ, *sru
遚	*sʰrus
餿	*sru
搜	*sru
颼	*sru
溲	*sru, *sruʔ
鎪	*sru
獀	*sru
鄋	*sru
螋	*sru, *sro
騪	*sru
瘦	*srus

Etymology 1

trad.		搜
simp. #		搜
alternative forms		捜 抄 (Min Nan)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sōu (sou¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄡ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sau¹ / sau²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sêu
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): so / so͘ / só͘ / chhiau / chhiâu
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹seu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sōu
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄡ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sou
    • Wade–Giles: sou¹
    • Yale: sōu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sou
    • Palladius: соу (sou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /soʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sau¹ / sau²
    • Yale: sāu / sáu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sau¹ / sau²
    • Guangdong Romanization: seo¹ / seo²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐu̯⁵⁵/, /sɐu̯³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sêu
    • Hakka Romanization System: seu´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: seu¹
    • Sinological IPA: /seu̯²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: so
    • Tâi-lô: so
    • Phofsit Daibuun: soy
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /so³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /so⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: so͘
    • Tâi-lô: soo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sof
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /sɔ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: só͘
    • Tâi-lô: sóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sor
    • IPA (Taipei): /sɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sɔ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiau
    • Tâi-lô: tshiau
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chiaw
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰiau⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiâu
    • Tâi-lô: tshiâu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chiaau
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰiau²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰiau²³/

Note: chhiau/chhiâu - 抄 is used in the Mainland..

• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹seu
    • MiniDict: seu^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹seu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /sɤ⁵³/

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• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*sru/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sru/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	搜
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	sōu
Middle Chinese	‹ srjuw ›
Old Chinese	/*sru/
English	search
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	搜
Reading #	1/1
No.	12079
Phonetic component	叟
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	𢯱
Old Chinese	/*sru/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 搜

1. to collect
2. to seek for
3. to search; to seek
4. spring hunt, (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 獀.

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 搜 – see 蒐. (This character is the simplified form of 蒐).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

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Japanese

Shinjitai	捜
Kyūjitai	搜

Kanji

搜

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 捜)

1. Kyūjitai form of 捜

Readings

• On (unclassified): そう (sō)
• Kun: さがす (sagasu, 搜す)

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Korean

Hanja

搜 • (su) (hangeul 수)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 搜 (sưu, xâu)

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References

• Nom Foundation