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Translingual

Han character

(radical 64 +14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 手十月火 (QJBF), four-corner 53091, composition)

  1. wipe, scrub, scour
  2. brush

References

  • KangXi: page 460, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12862
  • Dae Jaweon: page 808, character 29
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1977, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+64E6

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*sʰlaːds
*ʔsreːds
*ʔsreːds, *ʔsleds
*ʔsleds
*ʔsleds
*ʔsleds
*hr'eds
*sʰleːds
*sʰlaːd
*sʰlaːd, *saːd
*sʰlaːd
*sʰreːd
*sʰreːd, *sʰeːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sʰlaːd) : semantic  (hand) + phonetic  (OC *sʰreːd) – wipe, scrub by hand.

Pronunciation


Verb

  1. to wipe
  2. to scour, to scrub

Compounds

  • 擦棒球
  • 擦背
  • 擦边, 擦边儿
  • 擦边球
  • 擦布
  • 擦黑儿
  • 擦痕
  • 擦磨
  • 擦屁股
  • 擦破
  • 擦拳摩掌
  • 擦伤 (cāshāng)
  • 擦拭
  • 擦网球
  • 擦洗
  • 擦眼抹泪
  • 擦音 (cāyīn, fricative)
  • 擦澡
  • 擦脂抹粉
  • 破擦音 (pòcāyīn, affricate)
  • 破裂摩擦音 (pòliè mócāyīn, affricate)
  • 塞擦音 (sècāyīn, affricate)
  • 嘶擦音 (sīcāyīn, sibilant)

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Derived terms


Korean

Hanja

(chal) (hangeul , revised chal, McCune-Reischauer ch'al, Yale chal)

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Compounds

  • 麻擦 (마찰, machal)

Vietnamese

Han character

(sát, xát, xớt)

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