sào

broom

To sweep  away dirt 

Components
土 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

earth

帚 meaning component

  Meaning component

zhǒu

  

broom

Evolution

埽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
埽 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

sào

broom; to sweep, clear away; dike; old variant of |[sào]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4582nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+57FD

Shuowen

“埽,棄也。从土,从帚。”


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