sāo

harass

A flea  biting a horse  also provides the pronunciation

Components
马 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

horse

蚤 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

zǎo

  

flea

Evolution

骚 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
骚 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
骚 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
骚 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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sāo

harass, bother, annoy, disturb, agitate; sad, grieved; trouble; disturbance; rumpus; flirty; coquettish; abbr. for 離騷|离骚[Lí​Sāo]; literary writings; smell of urine; foul smell; male (animal) (dialect)

Most common words with 骚
Freq.
Word
Meaning

骚扰

to disturb

trouble

性骚扰

sexual harassment

骚乱

riot

风骚

literary excellence

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

12

Traditional

Unicode

U+9A9A


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