sǎosào

sweep

Simplified form of . Depicts using a hand () sweeping with a broom ().

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

is a component form of .

彐 simplified component

  Simplified component

  

snout

Shorthand for the component in the traditional character .

Evolution

扫 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
扫 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
扫 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
扫 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

sǎo

sweep, clear away; exterminate; to sweep

() 

sào

broom

Most common words with 扫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to sweep

扫描

to scan

打扫

to clean

扫地

to sweep the floor

清扫

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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