sǎo, sào
sweep
Depicts using a hand (扌) sweeping with a broom (帚).
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 掃
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to sweep | ||
to scan | ||
to clean | ||
to sweep the floor | ||
to tidy up |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 26.9422% of movies
1300th most common character in movies
1435th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6383 |
Sources
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