搜
soū · HSK 5
to search
🔍 sounds like 'sue' — sue someone by searching for evidence
搜 = 扌(hand radical) + 叟(old man); the hand reaches in to search through things. The Mandarin reading soū rhymes with English 'sue', a hook for the search/seek meaning.
搜 — hand radical 扌 + 叟 sǒu (old man)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The hand radical 扌 gives the meaning, indicating an action done with the hand, while 叟 supplies the sound. Originally meaning to grope or feel for something by hand, it extended to the modern sense of searching or seeking.