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搔

搔

搔 U+6414, 搔
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6414
← 搓
[U+6413] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 搕 →
[U+6415]
See also: 掻

Translingual

Shinjitai 掻
Simplified 搔
Traditional 搔

Han character

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

  1. to scratch

Descendants

References

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 搔

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 搔
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (蚤) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蚤 *ʔsuːʔ
慅 *sʰuːʔ, *suː
騷 *suː
搔 *suː
鰠 *suː
溞 *suː
颾 *suː
瘙 *suːs
瑵 *ʔsruːʔ
糔 *suʔ
鼜 *sʰɯːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *suː) : semantic 扌 ‎(“hand”) + phonetic 蚤 ‎(OC *ʔsuːʔ, “flea, louse”), with semantic use – to scratch (a flea 蚤) with the hand 扌.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 搔
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 豪 (89)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 蘇遭切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /sɑu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /sɑu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /sɑu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /saw/
Li
Rong		 /sɑu/
Wang
Li		 /sɑu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /sɑu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 sāo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 搔
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 sāo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ saw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s-[ts]ˤu/
English scratch (v.)

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

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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 搔
Reading # 1/1
No. 16555
Phonetic
component		 蚤
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 騷
Old
Chinese		 /*suː/

Verb

搔

  1. to scratch
    搔癢 / 搔痒  ―  sāoyǎng  ―  to scratch an itch

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 搔 (“to scratch (an itch)”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 搔
Mandarin Beijing 搔、抓
Cantonese Guangzhou 𢯎、搲
Hong Kong 𢯎、搲
Taishan 搲
Min Nan Shantou 扒
Wu Wenzhou 抓

Japanese

Kanji

搔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

搔 • ‎(so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune-Reischauer so, Yale so)

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Vietnamese

Han character

搔 (trao, tao, trau)

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