擦 — Chinese character
擦
cā
to clean, to erase, to polish; a brush
- Pinyin
- cā
- Radical
- 64 ⼿ (Hand)
- Strokes
- 17
- Components
- 扌 察
- Formation
- pictophonetic — hand; meaning component 扌; sound component 察
- Japanese
- 擦 as a kanji
Common words with 擦
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 摩擦 | mó cā | friction; rubbing |
| 擦肩而过 (擦肩而過) | cā jiān ér guò | to brush past; to pass by (sb); (fig.) to miss (an opportunity, a danger etc); to have a brush (with death) |
| 磨擦 | mó cā | variant of 摩擦 (mó cā) |
| 擦亮 | cā liàng | to polish |
| 擦拭 | cā shì | to wipe clean |
| 擦干 (擦乾) | cā gān | to wipe dry |
| 擦伤 (擦傷) | cā shāng | to abrade; to scrape; to chafe; to graze; abrasion; friction burn; scratch |
| 擦掉 | cā diào | to wipe |
| 擦洗 | cā xǐ | to clean (with water or alcohol); to wipe and wash |
| 擦屁股 | cā pì gu | to wipe one’s ass; (fig.) (coll.) to clean up sb else's mess |
| 擦边球 (擦邊球) | cā biān qiú | (table tennis) edge ball; (fig.) actions that are technically legal but perhaps not respectable |
| 摩擦力 | mó cā lì | friction |
English words written with 擦
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.