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

To catch 禽 by hand 扌; 禽 also provides the pronunciation

  • to arrest, to capture, to seize qín
    • hand shǒu
    • birds, fowl; to capture; surname qín
      • man, person; people rén
      • rare beast; strange; elegant chī
        • rump róu

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