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狩

shòu

Character

What 狩 means

1. to hunt
2. to go hunting (as winter sport in former times)
3. hunting dog
4. imperial tour

Example sentences

• 你见过雪豹在山上狩猎吗？
  Have you ever seen a snow leopard hunt in the mountains?
• 海明威喜欢在非洲的大狩猎。
  Hǎimíngwēi xǐhuan zài Fēizhōu de dà shòuliè.
  Hemingway enjoyed big game hunting in Africa.

Words starting with 狩

• 狩猎shòu lièto hunt; hunting

Characters that look like 狩

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 特tèspecial; unique; distinguished
• 种zhǒngseed; species; kind
• 肿zhǒngto swell; swelling; swollen
• 秤chēngto weigh (variant of 称
• 胯kuàcrotch; groin; hip
• 抨pēngattack; impeach

Sounds the same

Read shòu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 受to receive; to accept; to suffer
• 瘦thin; to lose weight; (of clothing) tight
• 授(bound form) to confer; to give; (bound form) to teach; to instruct; (literary) to appoint
• 售(bound form) to sell; to retail; (literary) to carry out (a plan or intrigue etc)
• 寿long life; old age; age
• 兽beast; animal; beastly
• 绶cord on a seal
• 夀old variant of 寿

Go deeper

• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shòu correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.