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U+6414, 搔
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6414

[U+6413]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+6415]

Translingual

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Han character

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

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
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Chinese

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Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 搔, Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) ...

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *suː): semantic (hand) + phonetic (OC *ʔsuːʔ, flea, louse).

Etymology

Schuessler (2007) considers (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 (OC *ʔsruːʔ, “claw”).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • so/so͘ - literary;
  • sau - vernacular.

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More information Zhengzhang system (2003), Character ...

Definitions

  1. to scratch
       sāoyǎng   to scratch an itch

Synonyms

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Japanese

Shinjitai
(extended)

Print
standard

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

  1. to scratch
  2. to make noise

Readings

  • Go-on: そう ()さう (sau, historical)
  • Kan-on: そう ()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

(so) (hangeul , revised so, McCuneReischauer so, Yale so)

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: trao, tao, trau

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