索 (suǒ)
to search/to demand/rope/cable
How 索 is written
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 十 — ten
- Traditional
- 索
- Simplified
- 索 (unchanged)
Components
- 十 ten
- 冖 cover
- 糸 silk
Common words using 索
- 探索 tànsuǒ
- to explore; to probe
- 搜索 sōusuǒ
- to search; to look for sth; to scour (search meticulously)
- 檢索 jiǎnsuǒ
- to retrieve (data); to look up; retrieval
- 不假思索 bùjiǎsīsuǒ
- to act without taking time to think (idiom); to react instantly; to fire from the hip
- 利索 lìsuo
- nimble
- 勒索 lèsuǒ
- to blackmail; to extort
- 導火索 dǎohuǒsuǒ
- a fuse (for explosive)
- 思索 sīsuǒ
- to think deeply; to ponder
- 摸索 mōsuo
- to feel about; to grope about; to fumble
- 求索 qiúsuǒ
- to search for sth; to seek; to quest
- 畢加索 bìjiāsuǒ
- Picasso
- 索取 suǒqǔ
- to ask; to demand
索 in a sentence
警方正在搜索失蹤的人。
Jǐngfāng zhèngzài sōusuǒ shīzōng de rén.
“The police are searching for the missing person.”
How common is 索?
索 is the 803rd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 85.4% of all running text.
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