求 (qiú): meaning and stroke order
求 (qiú) means to seek, to look for, to request, to demand, to beseech.
求
- Simplified
- 求
- Traditional
- 求 (same form)
- Pinyin
- qiú
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Stroke order of 求
求
- qiú to seek; to look for
- 7 strokes
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Meaning of 求
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qiú
- to seek
- to look for
- to request
- to demand
- to beseech
Radical and structure
- 求
- Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 7 strokes
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Words with 求
- 求学 qiú xué to pursue one's studies; to attend school; to seek knowledge
- 要求 yāo qiú to request; to require
- 追求 zhuī qiú to pursue (a goal etc) stubbornly; to seek after
- 请求 qǐng qiú to request; to ask; request (CL:個|个[ge4])
- 刻舟求剑 kè zhōu qiú jiàn lit. a notch on the side of a boat to locate a sword dropped overboard (idiom); fig. an action made pointless by changed circumstances
求 in our stories
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龙王这才害怕起来，连夜去求唐太宗，因为负责行刑的，正是太宗的大臣魏征。
Lóngwáng zhè cái hàipà qǐlai liányè qù qiú Táng Tàizōng yīnwèi fùzé xíngxíng de zhèngshì Tàizōng de dàchén Wèi Zhēng
Only then did the Dragon King grow afraid. That very night he went to beg Emperor Taizong for help, for the one charged with the execution was none other than Taizong's minister Wei Zheng.
From the story The Dragon King of the Jing River HSK 7–9 · Level 7
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“听说县里的包大人断案如神，求您带我去见他！”
tīngshuō xiàn lǐ de Bāo dàren duàn'àn rú shén qiú nín dài wǒ qù jiàn tā
"They say Lord Bao, the county magistrate, judges cases like a god. Please take me to him!"
From the story The tale of the black basin HSK 7–9 · Level 7
Stories using 求
- The Dragon King of the Jing River HSK 7–9 · Level 7
- The tale of the black basin HSK 7–9 · Level 7
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).