Trace Panda
■ radical

qǔ

to take

How it’s built

Pictograph of a hand (又) grabbing an ear (耳). In ancient China, the ears of opponents in battle were cut off and collected as tokens of victory.

耳
iconic

ear

又
iconic

(hand); again

Through the ages

Oracle bone script
Bronze script

Appears in

Characters that use 取 as a component, most common first.

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