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U+6414, 搔
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6414

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Japanese
Simplified
Traditional

Han character

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

Descendants

References

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

Chinese

trad.
simp. #

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *suː) : semantic (hand) + phonetic (OC *ʔsuːʔ, flea, louse).

Etymology

Schuessler (2007) considers (OC *suːʔ, *suːs, “to brush”) to be cognate and suggests a Sino-Tibetan etymology, relating it to Chepang साव्‌सा (saw-, to itch), सोस्‌सा (sos‑, to itch), Bodo (India) (su-, to itch).

Baxter and Sagart (2014) relates it to (OC *ʔsruːʔ, “claw”).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • so/so͘ - literary;
  • sau - vernacular.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (89)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter saw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/sɑu/
Pan
Wuyun
/sɑu/
Shao
Rongfen
/sɑu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/saw/
Li
Rong
/sɑu/
Wang
Li
/sɑu/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/sɑu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
sāo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
sou1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
sāo
Middle
Chinese
‹ saw ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-ˁu/
English scratch (v.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 16555
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*suː/

Definitions

  1. to scratch
      ―  sāoyǎng  ―  to scratch an itch

Synonyms

Japanese

Shinjitai
(extended)

Kyūjitai

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanjikyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

  1. to scratch
  2. to make noise

Readings

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
H
hyōgai kanji
Extended shinjitai form of : to scratch; to make noise
Kanji reading:
そう, かい, かき, かく, さわぐ
(This term, , is the kyūjitai of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

(so) (hangeul , revised so, McCune–Reischauer so, Yale so)

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: trao, tao, trau

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