搔
See also: 掻
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Translingual
| Japanese | 掻 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|
| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Small seal script |
Characters in the same phonetic series (蚤) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
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) [script needed] (su-, “to itch”).
Baxter and Sagart (2014) relates it to 爪 (OC *ʔsruːʔ, “claw”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: sāo
- 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
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: so
- Tâi-lô: so
- Phofsit Daibuun: soy
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /sɤ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /so³³/
- IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /so⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: so͘
- Tâi-lô: soo
- Phofsit Daibuun: sof
- IPA (Quanzhou): /sɔ³³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sau
- Tâi-lô: sau
- Phofsit Daibuun: saw
- IPA (Quanzhou): /sau³³/
- IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /sau⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
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-[ts]ˤu/
- (Zhengzhang): /*suː/
Definitions
搔
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 搔 (“to scratch (an itch)”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Classical Chinese | 搔 | |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 搔, 撓 | |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 搔, 抓 |
| Singapore | 抓 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 𢯎, 搲 |
| Hong Kong | 𢯎, 搲 | |
| Taishan | 搲 | |
| Yangjiang | 𢯎 | |
| 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
(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)
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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