抄 — Chinese character
抄
chāo
copy, plagiarism; to confiscate, to seize
- Pinyin
- chāo
- Radical
- 64 ⼿ (Hand)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 扌 少
- Formation
- pictophonetic — hand; meaning component 扌; sound component 少
- Japanese
- 抄 as a kanji
Common words with 抄
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 抄袭 (抄襲) | chāo xí | to plagiarize; to copy |
| 抄家 | chāo jiā | to search a house and confiscate possessions |
| 抄录 (抄錄) | chāo lù | to make a copy of |
| 抄写 (抄寫) | chāo xiě | to copy; to transcribe |
| 抄本 | chāo běn | handwritten copy |
| 包抄 | bāo chāo | to outflank; to envelop |
| 查抄 | chá chāo | to take inventory of and confiscate a criminal's possessions; to search and confiscate (forbidden items); to raid |
| 手抄本 | shǒu chāo běn | manuscript copy of a book (before the printing press) |
| 照抄 | zhào chāo | to copy word for word |
| 摘抄 | zhāi chāo | to extract; to excerpt |
| 抄送 | chāo sòng | to make a copy (and send it to someone); Cc (for email) |
| 传抄 (傳抄) | chuán chāo | to copy (a text) from person to person; (of a text) to be transmitted by copying |
English words written with 抄
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.