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求 7 strokes

求 qiú — to seek; to look for

7 strokes · radical 水 (water)

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A fur coat with the hairs drawn hanging. Borrowed for the sound, it became to seek and to beg, and 裘 kept the coat.

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A fur coat with the hairs drawn hanging.

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