BaoBao Talk
求
qiú · to seek; to request, to demand; to beseech, to beg for
- Pinyin
- qiú
- Tone
- second tone, rising
- Strokes
- 7
- HSK level
- HSK 2
- Radical
- 氺
What 求 means
- to seek
- to request, to demand
- to beseech, to beg for
How to remember 求
Its sound decides the scene before you invent anything: the start picks who is in it, the ending picks where, and the tone picks where in that place you are standing.
Actor
the Queen
the q- sound
Place
the Oat Mill
OA-ts
Tone
the stairs going up
the pitch climbs with you
Put the Queen at the Oat Mill, the stairs going up, doing something with 一 and 氺 that means “to seek”. That one picture carries the sound, the tone and the meaning at once. How the method works →
Why the Queen? the Queen is a woman because the -i- medial follows the initial, and the name starts with Q to echo the q- it stands for. All 55 actors →
Stroke order
The diagram above shades the strokes from first to last: the palest stroke is written first, the darkest last. 求 takes 7 strokes.
What 求 is built from
一 氺
Characters are made of a small number of repeating parts. Learn the parts once and every character that uses them gets easier.
Characters that use 求
Remember 求, don't just look it up
BaoBao Talk turns each character into a scene built from its own sound and tone, so it has something to hang on. The parts repeat, which is why the hundredth character costs less effort than the tenth.