搔

See also 掻

Translingual

shinjitai	掻
simplified	搔
traditional	搔

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 蚤 (“flea, louse”), with semantic use – to scratch (a flea 蚤) with the hand 扌.

Han character

搔 (radical 64 手+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 手水戈戈 (QEII), four-corner 5703₆)

1. to scratch

Descendants

• 掻

References

• KangXi: page 446, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12477
• Dae Jaweon: page 797, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1939, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6414

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Cantonese

Hanzi

搔 (Yale sou1)

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Japanese

Kanji

搔

Readings

• On: そう (sō)
• Kun: かく (kaku)

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Korean

Hanja

搔 (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune-Reischauer so, Yale so)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

搔 (pinyin sāo (sao1), Wade-Giles sao¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

搔 (tao, trao, trau)