Chinese Character Wiki

騷

sāo

harass

A flea 蚤 biting a horse 馬; 蚤 also provides the pronunciation

Components
馬 meaning component

馬  Meaning component

mǎ

  

horse

蚤 sound,meaning component

蚤  Sound Meaning component

zǎo

  

flea

Evolution

騷 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
騷 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
騷 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
騷 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
騷 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

骚 (騷) 

sāo

harass, bother, annoy, disturb, agitate; sad, grieved; trouble; disturbance; rumpus; flirty; coquettish; abbr. for 離騷|离骚[Lí​Sāo]; literary writings; smell of urine; foul smell; male (animal) (dialect)

Most common words with 騷
Freq.
Word
Meaning

骚扰

to disturb

骚

trouble

性骚扰

sexual harassment

骚乱

riot

风骚

literary excellence

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[s]ˤu

saw

sāo

disturb


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 16.4825% of movies

1662nd most common character in movies

2237th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

骚

Unicode

U+9A37

Shuowen

“騷，擾也。一曰摩馬。从馬，蚤聲。”


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