Measure word
- 处 chù to reside; to live; to dwell; to be in; to be situated at; to stay; to get along with; to be in a position of; to deal... attested in use
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 尋, the traditional character: 寻 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 14 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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所有村民出发去山里寻找一只失踪的猫。
All the villagers went into the mountains to look for a missing cat.