搔
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See also: 掻
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Translingual
| Japanese | 掻 |
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| Simplified | 搔 |
| Traditional | 搔 |
Han character
搔 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 手水戈戈 (QEII), four-corner 57036, composition ⿰扌蚤)
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. | 搔 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. # | 搔 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 搔 |
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| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Small seal script |
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *suː) : semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 蚤 (OC *ʔsuːʔ, “flea, louse”).
Etymology
Schuessler (2007) considers 掃 (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 爪 (OC *ʔsruːʔ, “claw”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄙㄠ
- Tongyong Pinyin: sao
- Wade–Giles: sao1
- Yale: sāu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sau
- Palladius: сао (sao)
- Sinological IPA (key): /sɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: sou1
- Yale: sōu
- Cantonese Pinyin: sou1
- Guangdong Romanization: sou1
- Sinological IPA (key): /sou̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Southern Min
Note:
- so/so͘ - literary;
- sau - vernacular.
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: sao1
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sau
- Sinological IPA (key): /sau³³/
- Middle Chinese: saw
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-ˤu/
- (Zhengzhang): /*suː/
Definitions
搔
Synonyms
| Variety | Location | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Classical Chinese | 搔 | |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 搔, 撓 | |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 搔, 抓 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 𢯎, 搲 |
| Hong Kong | 𢯎, 搲 | |
| Taishan | 搲 | |
| Hakka | Meixian | 搲 |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 爪 | |
| Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 爪 | |
| Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 爪 | |
| Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 爪 | |
| Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 爪 | |
| Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 爪 | |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 扒 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 扒 |
| Quanzhou | 扒 | |
| Zhangzhou | 扒 | |
| Tainan | 扒 | |
| Singapore (Hokkien) | 扒 | |
| Manila (Hokkien) | 扒 | |
| Shantou (Chaoyang) | 扒 | |
| Puning | 嬈, 扒 | |
| Wu | Shanghai | 抓 |
| Suzhou | 抓 | |
| Wenzhou | 抓 | |
Japanese
| 掻 | |
| 搔 |
Kanji
搔
(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 掻)
Readings
- Go-on: そう (sō)←さう (sau, historical)
- Kan-on: そう (sō)←さう (sau, historical)
- Kun: かい (kai, 搔い); かき (kaki, 搔き); かく (kaku, 搔く); さわぐ (sawagu, 搔ぐ)
Definitions
| For pronunciation and definitions of 搔 – see the following entry. | ||
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| (This term, 搔, is the kyūjitai of the above term.) |
Korean
Hanja
搔 • (so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune–Reischauer so, Yale so)
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Vietnamese
Han character
搔: Hán Nôm readings: trao, tao, trau
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