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搔

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

Translingual

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Japanese 掻
Simplified 搔
Traditional 搔

Han character

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

Descendants

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References

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  • 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

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trad. 搔
simp. # 搔

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character 搔
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
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／形声, OC *suː) : semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 蚤 (OC *ʔsuːʔ, “flea, louse”).

Etymology

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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

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Note:
  • so/so͘ - literary;
  • sau - vernacular.
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
Baxter saw
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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		sou1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 搔
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		sāo
Middle
Chinese 		‹ saw ›
Old
Chinese 		/*s-[ts]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. *[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/

Definitions

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搔

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

Synonyms

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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
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

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Shinjitai
(extended)

掻

Kyūjitai

搔

Kanji

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搔

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 掻)

  1. to scratch
  2. to make noise

Readings

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Definitions

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

Korean

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Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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搔: Hán Nôm readings: trao, tao, trau

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