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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		擦

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cā (ca¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): caat³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: cā
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄚ
    • Wade-Giles: ts'a¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsa
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰa̠⁵⁵/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: caat³
    • Yale: chaat
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsaat⁸
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɑːt̚³/

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 (cāshāng)
• 擦拭
• 擦网球
• 擦洗
• 擦眼抹泪
• 擦音 (cāyīn, “fricative”)
• 擦澡
• 擦脂抹粉
• 破擦音 (pòcāyīn, “affricate”)
• 破裂摩擦音 (pòliè mócāyīn, “affricate”)
• 塞擦音 (sècāyīn, “affricate”)
• 嘶擦音 (sīcāyīn, “sibilant”)

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Japanese

Kanji

擦

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

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

Derived terms

• 靴擦れ (くつずれ, kutsuzure)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Compounds

• 麻擦 (마찰, machal)

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Vietnamese

Han character

擦 (sát, xát, xớt)

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