This logogram is of ideographic origin and it was designed to evoke:

A hand 彐 looking 工 for an item 口; 寸 provides the pronunciation

  • 尋 to seek; to search for, to look for; ancient xún
    • 寸 inch; small, tiny cùn
尋 xún to seek to search for, to look for ancient 潯鱘

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