擦

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 察 – wipe, scrub by hand.

Han character

擦 (radical 64 手+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 手十月火 (QJBF), four-corner 5309₁, composition ⿰扌察)

1. wipe, scrub, rub, scour
2. brush

References

• KangXi: page 460, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12862
• Dae Jaweon: page 808, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1977, character 3
• Unihan data for U+64E6

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Cantonese

Hanzi

擦 (Yale chaat3)

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Japanese

Kanji

擦 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: さつ (satsu)
• Kun: する (suru), さする (sasuru)

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Korean

Hanja

擦 (hangeul 찰, revised chal, McCune-Reischauer ch'al, Yale chal)

Compounds

• 麻擦 (마찰, machal)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

擦 (pinyin cā (ca1), Wade-Giles ts'a¹)

Compounds

• 擦棒球
• 擦背
• 擦边, 擦边儿
• 擦边球
• 擦布
• 擦黑儿
• 擦痕
• 擦磨
• 擦屁股
• 擦破
• 擦拳摩掌
• 擦伤
• 擦拭
• 擦网球
• 擦洗
• 擦眼抹泪
• 擦音
• 擦澡
• 擦脂抹粉

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Vietnamese

Han character

擦 (sát, xát, xớt)