觅

覓
mì
#2,819 most
frequent character
(literary) to seek, to find

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

觅 is a picture of a hand 爫 held over the brow and a person 见 with a big eye. It first meant using a hand to shade the eyes and watch. From that it grew to mean to seek or look for.

Drawn as: hand over brow; person with big eye

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Same Characters, Different Readings

觅mì
old variant of 覓|觅[mi4]

Homophones

密mì
thick, secret, close, dense
蜜mì
honey
秘mì
secret, secretary

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