chǒu
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 (archaic) to look at; to take notice of
  2. 2 (archaic) to pay attention to (often negated)

Examples

Jiù báihuà xiǎoshuō lǐ yòng zhège zì xiě bù chǒu bù cǎi.
In old vernacular novels the phrase "not even glancing at" is written with this character.

Tips

history
Not used in modern Chinese, where and cover its senses. It chiefly survives in the old set phrase (ignoring completely) in Ming-Qing vernacular fiction.
register
Archaic vernacular only; encountered in old novels and etymology notes, not in speech.

Components

radical
rén
person
The person radical frames this as a human action — a person looking at or heeding something.
phonetic
qiū
autumn
The right side is the phonetic; the reading has drifted well away from qiū to chǒu (also read qiào), a common kind of sound drift in vernacular characters.

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Stroke Order

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