求 qiú

1. qiú verb to request
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In this sense 求 is similar in meaning to 请求 (ABCE '求'; CCD '求' 1; FE '求' 1; GHDC '求' 2; HSK '求' 1)
2. qiú verb to seek; to look for
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In this sense 求 is similar in meaning to 追求. For example, For example, 实事求是 'to seek truth from facts' (ABCE '求'; CCD '求' 3; CCI '实事求是'; FE '求' 2; Guoyu '求' v 1; Kroll 2015 '求' 1; HSK '求' 2).
3. qiú verb to implore
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Education
   Notes: In the sense of 恳讬 (Guoyu '求' v 2)
4. qiú verb to aspire to
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '求' 1b)
5. qiú adjective to be avaricious; to be greedy; to covet
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In this sense 求 is similar in meaning to 贪婪 (FE '求' 4; Guoyu '求' v 4)
6. qiú verb to attract
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 招引 (Guoyu '求' v 5)
7. qiú verb to bribe
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In this sense 求 is similar in meaning to 赇.
8. qiú proper noun Qiu
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
   Notes: (CCD '求' 5; GHDC '求' 5; Guoyu '求' n)
9. qiú verb to demand
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 要求; for example, the idiom 求全责备 'to demand perfection' (CCD '求' 4; FE '求' 2; GHDC '求' 3; Guoyu '求' v 3; Kroll 2015 '求' 2)
10. qiú verb to end
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (GHDC '求' 4)

Contained in

• 告求 to ask
• 千军易得，一将难求(千軍易得，一將難求) Easy to raise an army of one thousand, but hard to find a good general.
• 求知欲(求知慾) desire for knowledge
• 行销诉求(行銷訴求) marketing message
• 讲求(講求) to stress; to emphasize ; to research; to investigate
• 渴求 to long for; to crave for; to greatly desire
• 死中求生 to seek life in death; to fight for one's life
• 谋求(謀求) to seek; to strive for
• 求名求利 to seek fame and fortune
• 不求人 backscratcher
• 求证(求證) to seek proof; to seek confirmation
• 访求(訪求) to seek; to search for
• 求告 to implore; to beseech
• 毛里求斯卢比(毛裡求斯盧比) Mauritian rupee
• 社会总需求(社會總需求) aggregate social demand; total requirement of society
• 贪求(貪求) to avidly seek
• 求助于人(求助於人) to call upon others for help
• 诉求(訴求) to appeal; to demand (an answer); requirement; demand; claim; appeal; (marketing) message
• 求存 survival; the struggle to eke out a living; to seek for continued existence
• 求仕 to apply for an official post
• 事实求是(事實求是) to seek the truth from facts
• 希求 to hope and request
• 求知 anxious to learn; keen for knowledge
• 求值 to evaluate (an expression, function etc); evaluation
• 求福禳灾(求福禳災) to pray for good fortune and avoiding bad fortune
• 求救 to cry for help
• 求医(求醫) to seek medical treatment; to see a doctor
• 刻意求工 assiduous and painstaking
• 求职(求職) to seek employment; to look for a job
• 征求启事(徵求啟事) a notice to for people to register
• 寻求(尋求) to seek
• 实事求是(實事求是) to handle matters according to the actual situation; to be practical and realistic
• 求情 to plea for leniency; to ask for a favor
• 需求 requirement; demand
• 同类相求(同類相求) like kinds seek each other
• 自求多福 to be self reliant in seeking good fortune
• 忍辱求全 to endure humiliation to preserve unity
• 求学无坦途(求學無坦途) The path of learning can never be smooth.; There is no royal road to learning.
• 不求闻达(不求聞達) no ambition to make a reputation
• 求子 (of a childless couple) to pray for a son; to try to have a child
• 求偿(求償) to seek compensation; indemnity
• 以求 in order to
• 求名责实(求名責實) to determine whether name and reality are consistent
• 求人 to ask for help; to ask a favor; to recruit talented people
• 求情告饶(求情告饒) to beg for forgiveness
• 求欢(求歡) to proposition a woman
• 营求(營求) to seek
• 求人不如求己 if you want something done well, do it yourself
• 诛求(誅求) exorbitant demands; demanding with menaces; extortion
• 孜孜以求 diligent and tireless

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• 卷三十七 志第十三 曆七 Volume 37 Treatises 13: Calendar 7 History of Ming 明史 — count: 158
• 卷三十四 志第十四: 曆三 Volume 34 Treatises 14: Calendar 3 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 136
• 卷17　志第12 律曆中 Volume 17 Treatises 12: Measures and the Calendar 2 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 132
• 卷七十九 志第三十二 律曆十二 Volume 79 Treatises 32: Measures and Calendar 12 History of Song 宋史 — count: 129
• 卷七十五 志第二十八 律曆八 Volume 75 Treatises 28: Measures and Calendar 8 History of Song 宋史 — count: 115
• 卷三十三 志第十三: 曆二 Volume 33 Treatises 13: Calendar 2 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 110
• 卷五十六　志第八:　　曆五 Volume 56 Treatises 9: Calendar 5 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 107
• 卷七十七 志第三十 律曆十 Volume 77 Treatises 30: Measures and Calendar 10 History of Song 宋史 — count: 94
• 卷18　志第13 律曆下 Volume 18 Treatises 13: Measures and the Calendar 3 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 91
• 卷六十九 志第二十二 律曆二 Volume 69 Treatises 22: Measures and Calendar 2 History of Song 宋史 — count: 86

Collocations

• 来求 (來求) 萬福來求 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧甫田之什‧桑扈 Minor odes of the kingdom - Fu Tian Zhi Shen - Sang Hu — count: 13
• 求成 (求成) 而求成焉 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 10
• 求诸侯 (求諸侯) 不脩德而求諸侯 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧齊‧甫田 Lessons from the states - Odes of Qi - Fu Tian — count: 3
• 求贤 (求賢) 求賢審官 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧周南‧卷耳 Lessons from the states - Odes Of Zhou And The South - Juan Er — count: 3
• 求车 (求車) 天王求車 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 序 Preface — count: 3
• 敷求 (敷求) 罔敷求先王 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧蕩之什‧抑 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Dang - Yi — count: 3
• 求君 (求君) 而外求君 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 3
• 人求 (人求) 人求多聞 — Book of Documents 尚書, 商書 說命下（僞） Shang Shu - Charge to Yue III (forged) — count: 2
• 求妇 (求婦) 杞伯姬來求婦 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 2
• 求赙 (求賻) 武氏子來求賻 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 2