騷

騷 (Kangxi radical 187, 馬+10, 20 strokes, cangjie input 尸火水戈戈 (SFEII), four-corner 7733₆, composition ⿰馬蚤)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1443, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44935
• Dae Jaweon: page 1967, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4567, character 10
• Unihan data for U+9A37

Historical forms of the character 騷
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *suː): semantic 馬 (“horse”) + phonetic 蚤 (OC *ʔsuːʔ). Sense “grieved, sad” is a phonetic loan.

to harass, to bother

Schuessler, 2007 suggests it is a voiced variant of 搜 (sōu, “move”), p. 450.

grieved, sad

Of Austroasiatic origin. Schuessler, 2007 makes a connection to Old Khmer (sook, “sorrow, affliction, grief, to be sad, to grieve”), p. 451. The loss of OC coda is attributed to the long vowel.

騷

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to harass; to bother; to annoy; to disturb; to agitate

   騷擾／骚扰 (sāorǎo, “to harass; to annoy”)

   騷亂／骚乱 (sāoluàn, “to riot; to be in turmoil”)

2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) sad; grieved

   《離騷》／《离骚》  ―  “Lísāo”  ―  Encountering Sorrow

3. poetry

   騷人雅士／骚人雅士  ―  sāorén yǎshì  ―  cultured and refined literati

4. coquettish; flirty; provocative
   • 2002, 李榮 (Li Rong), chief editor, 《現代漢語方言大詞典》 , Nanjing: Jiangsu Education Publishing House, →ISBN

     該個女個騷顯個，儂覅伉渠嬉。
     该个女个骚显个，侬覅伉渠嬉。

     That woman seems quite flirtatious, don't approach her.

5. Alternative form of 臊 (“foul; stinky”)
6. (Sichuanese) at random
   • 2002, 李榮 (Li Rong), chief editor, 《現代漢語方言大詞典》 , Nanjing: Jiangsu Education Publishing House, →ISBN

     他在那兒騷説。
     他在那儿骚说。

     na¹ tai⁴ nar⁴ sau¹ sai²

     He's speaking at random.

7. (Lanyin Mandarin) flippant
   • 2002, 李榮 (Li Rong), chief editor, 《現代漢語方言大詞典》 , Nanjing: Jiangsu Education Publishing House, →ISBN

     娃娃們好好坐者，再嫑騷了。
     娃娃们好好坐者，再嫑骚了。

     Wáwa men hǎohāor zuò zhe, zài biáo sāo le.

     Children, sit tight, stop mucking around.

8. (Xinjiang Mandarin) awesome

   Synonym: 牛屄 (niúbī) (non-dialectal)

From English show. Doublet of 秀 (xiù).

• (Hong Kong Cantonese) show, so

騷 (Cantonese)

1. show; performance
2. to show; to display

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 騒)

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• On (unclassified): そう (sō)
• Kun: さわぐ (sawagu, 騷ぐ)

騷 (eum 소 (so))

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騷: Hán Nôm readings: tao

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