掃 — Chinese character
掃
sǎo
to clean, to sweep, to wipe away; to weed out; to wipe out
- Pinyin
- sǎo
- Radical
- 64 ⼿ (Hand)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 扌 帚
- Formation
- ideographic — To use 扌 a broom 帚; 帚 also provides the pronunciation
- Simplified
- 扫
- Japanese
- 掃 as a kanji
掃 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1
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.