sāo
harass
A flea 蚤 biting a horse 馬; 蚤 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 騷
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to disturb | ||
trouble | ||
sexual harassment | ||
riot | ||
literary excellence |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[s]ˤu | saw | sāo | disturb |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 16.4825% of movies
1662nd most common character in movies
2237th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9A37 |
Shuowen | “騷,擾也。一曰摩馬。从馬,蚤聲。” |
Sources
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