扫 — Chinese character
扫
sǎo
to clean, to sweep, to wipe away; to weed out; to wipe out
- Pinyin
- sǎo
- Radical
- 64 ⼿ (Hand)
- Strokes
- 6
- Components
- 扌 彐
- Formation
- ideographic — Simplified form of 掃; to use 扌 a broom 帚; 帚 also provides the pronunciation
- Traditional
- 掃
Common words with 扫
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 扫描 (掃描) | sǎo miáo | to scan |
| 打扫 (打掃) | dǎ sǎo | to clean; to sweep |
| 横扫 (橫掃) | héng sǎo | to sweep away; to sweep across |
| 扫除 (掃除) | sǎo chú | to clean; to clean up; to eliminate; to wipe out |
| 扫荡 (掃蕩) | sǎo dàng | (military) to mop up; to crack down on; to eradicate |
| 扫地 (掃地) | sǎo dì | to sweep the floor; (fig.) (of one's reputation etc) to reach rock bottom |
| 清扫 (清掃) | qīng sǎo | to tidy up; to mop up |
| 扫射 (掃射) | sǎo shè | to rake with machine gunfire; to strafe |
| 扫帚 (掃帚) | sào zhou | broom |
| 扫墓 (掃墓) | sǎo mù | to sweep a grave (and pay one's respects to the dead person) |
| 扫黄 (掃黃) | sǎo huáng | campaign against pornography |
| 扫码 (掃碼) | sǎo mǎ | to scan a QR code or barcode |
English words written with 扫
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.