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Mythic Mandarin

扫 (sǎo): meaning and stroke order

扫 (sǎo) means to sweep (with a brush or broom), to sweep away; to wipe out; to get rid of.

扫

Simplified
扫
Traditional
掃
Pinyin
sǎo · sào

Stroke order of 扫

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 扫

  1. sǎo Traditional 掃
    • to sweep (with a brush or broom)
    • to sweep away; to wipe out; to get rid of
    • to sweep (one's eyes etc) over; to scan
  2. sào Traditional 掃
    • (bound form) a (large) broom

Radical and structure

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.

Words with 扫

扫 in our stories

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  • 她犹豫了很久，还是下了楼。那天，平时点头之交的邻居们一边扫落叶，一边聊天，有人端来了咖啡和华夫饼。

    tā yóuyù le hěn jiǔ háishi xià le lóu nà tiān píngshí diǎntóu zhī jiāo de línjū men yìbiān sǎo luòyè yìbiān liáotiān yǒurén duānlái le kāfēi hé huáfūbǐng

    She hesitated for a long time but went down anyway. That day, neighbours who normally just nodded to each other chatted as they swept leaves, and someone brought out coffee and waffles.

    From the story Two homes HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 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).