搔

See also: 掻

搔	U+6414, 搔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6414

← 搓
[U+6413]

CJK Unified Ideographs

搕 →
[U+6415]

Translingual

Japanese	掻
Simplified	搔
Traditional	搔

Han character

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

to scratch

Descendants

掻

References

KangXi: page 446, character 25

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12477

Dae Jaweon: page 797, character 9

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1939, character 6

Unihan data for U+6414

Chinese

simp. and trad.		搔

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 搔
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (蚤) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
蚤	*ʔsuːʔ
慅	sʰuːʔ, suː
騷	*suː
搔	*suː
鰠	*suː
溞	*suː
颾	*suː
瘙	*suːs
瑵	*ʔsruːʔ
糔	*suʔ
鼜	*sʰɯːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *suː) : semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 蚤 (OC *ʔsuːʔ, “flea, louse”), with semantic use – to scratch (a flea 蚤) with the hand 扌.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): sāo (sao¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄙㄠ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sou¹
Min Nan (POJ): so / so͘ / sau / sa

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: sāo
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄠ
  - Wade–Giles: sao¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sau
  - IPA ^(key): /sɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: sou¹
  - Yale: sōu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sou¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: sou¹
  - IPA ^(key): /sou̯⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: so
  - Tâi-lô: so
  - Phofsit Daibuun: soy
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /sɤ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /so³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /so⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: so͘
  - Tâi-lô: soo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sof
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sɔ³³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sau
  - Tâi-lô: sau
  - Phofsit Daibuun: saw
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /saʊ³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /saʊ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sa
  - Tâi-lô: sa
  - Phofsit Daibuun: saf
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /sa⁴⁴/

Note:

so/so͘ - literary;
sau/sa - vernacular.

Middle Chinese: /sɑu/▼

Rime
Character	搔
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	蘇遭切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/sɑu/
Pan Wuyun	/sɑu/
Shao Rongfen	/sɑu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/saw/
Li Rong	/sɑu/
Wang Li	/sɑu/
Bernard Karlgren	/sɑu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sāo

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*s-[ts]ˤu/

(Zhengzhang): /*suː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	搔
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	sāo
Middle Chinese	‹ saw ›
Old Chinese	/*s-[ts]ˤu/
English	scratch (v.)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	搔
Reading #	1/1
No.	16555
Phonetic component	蚤
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	騷
Old Chinese	/*suː/

Definitions

搔

to scratch

搔癢 / 搔痒 ― sāoyǎng ― to scratch an itch

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 搔 (“to scratch (an itch)”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		搔
Mandarin	Beijing	搔、抓
Cantonese	Guangzhou	𢯎、搲
	Hong Kong	𢯎、搲
	Taishan	搲
Min Nan	Shantou	扒
Wu	Wenzhou	抓

Japanese

Kanji

搔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 掻)

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Readings

On (unclassified): そう (sō)
Kun: かく (kaku, 搔く)

Korean

Hanja

搔 • (so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune–Reischauer so, Yale so)

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Vietnamese

Han character

搔 (trao, tao, trau)

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