sǎo, sào
sweep
Simplified form of 掃. 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)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 扫
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to sweep | ||
to scan | ||
to clean | ||
to sweep the floor | ||
to tidy up |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 26.9422% of movies
1300th most common character in movies
1435th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+626B |
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