to search / to look for / to seek

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a dowsing rod 寻水术. Not to be confused with 丫!

Xu Xian (xu) built a new dowsing rod (寻) which he tests just inside the Erechtheion's entrance ((e)n2). He prepared a huge pig snout (彐) of which he filled one nostril with water and one with wine. To his satisfaction, the dowsing rod reacts only to the wine, so he thumbs up (寸) satisfied. He'll go and search (寻) more wine with it immediately.

尋 character breakdown

mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).
a unit of length / inch / thumb

= + + : Kitty Cat is playing with a petal leaf in the encampment's bathroom. She's keeping it in the air by hitting it with a flute and a crowbar. It's so much fun that she thinks to herself "thumbs up".
work / worker / skill / profession / trade / craft / labor

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a steel beam, since 工 looks like the cross section of a steel beam. In front of the engine ((e)ng1), Gitta Giraffe (gu) is doing some hard work: She's stacking a capacitor (二) on a dinosaur bone (丨) on a capacitor (二). She's not very successful, but then she gets the idea to use steel beams (工) as support.
pig snout (Kangxi radical 58)

= + : Joan of Arc wears a fake pig snout in the space station's bathroom and makes grunting and squealing sounds.

Characters with 尋 as component

name of a river / steep bank
used in 蕁麻|荨麻[qian2 ma2] / also pr. [xun2]
nettle
sturgeon / Acipenser sturio
(hairy sea-crab)
see 武士彠|武士彟[Wu3 Shi4 huo4] / old variant of 蒦[huo4]
surname Xun / place name / Taiwan pr. [Xin2]
fathom (1.83 meters) (old)
to pull out (esp. hair or feathers) / to pick / to pluck / fig. to extract (lines from a text)
warm up (food)

Words with 尋

to seek; to look for
to seek / to look for
usual / common / ordinary
to consider / to ponder
to seek one's roots / to get to the bottom of a matter
to think sth over
to address / to search for address / to input data into memory
to look for / to explore / to probe
lit. to examine roots and inquire at the base (idiom); to get to the bottom of sth
addressable (computing) / accessible via an address
to carry out a vendetta against sb
to find out / to search out / to uncover / to discover

Sentences with 尋

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