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打扫 (dǎ sǎo): meaning and stroke order

打扫 (dǎ sǎo) means to clean, to sweep.

打扫

Simplified
打扫
Traditional
打掃
Pinyin
dǎ sǎo

Stroke order of 打扫

打

  • dá (loanword) dozen; Taiwan pr. [da3]
  • dǎ a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate"); to hit; to strike
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

扫

  • sǎo to sweep (with a brush or broom); to sweep away; to wipe out; to get rid of
  • sào (bound form) a (large) broom
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 掃

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 打扫

  1. dǎ sǎo Traditional 打掃
    • to clean
    • to sweep

Radicals of the characters

打
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 5 strokes · 扌 on the left, 丁 on the right
扫
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 6 strokes · 扌 on the left, 𫜹 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

打扫 in our stories

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  • 腊月二十三那天，奶奶一大早就把厨房打扫得干干净净，还在灶台前面摆了一盘糖瓜。

    làyuè èrshísān nà tiān nǎinai yí dàzǎo jiù bǎ chúfáng dǎsǎo de gāngānjìngjìng hái zài zàotái qiánmiàn bǎi le yì pán tángguā

    On the twenty-third of the twelfth month, Grandma cleaned the kitchen spotless first thing in the morning and set a plate of malt-sugar sweets in front of the stove.

    From the story Sweets for the Kitchen God HSK 5

Stories using 打扫

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).