扫
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to sweep (with a brush or broom); to sweep away; to wipe out; to get rid of; to sweep (one's eyes etc) over; to scan
- HSK 3.0
- Level 4
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 手 +3
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 掃
- Common rank
- #1,268
- Unicode
- U+626B
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 扫 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Simplified form of 掃; to use 扌 a broom 帚; 帚 also provides the pronunciation
Components 扌 彐
How to remember it
sweep · Heisig RSH #944
fingers + broom
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 扫
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 扫地机器人 | robot vacuum | |
| 一扫而光 | see 一掃而空|一扫而空[yi1 sao3 er2 kong1] | |
| 一扫而空 | (idiom) to make a clean sweep of; to clean out | |
| 扫黄运动 | campaign against pornography | |
| 扫黄打非 | to eradicate pornography and illegal publications | |
| 打扫卫生 | to do the cleaning; to clean up | |
| 威信扫地 | to lose every scrap of reputation | |
| 各人自扫门前雪，莫管他家瓦上霜 | sweep the snow from your own door step, don't worry about the frost on your neighbor's roo… | |
| 扫除天下 | (idiom) to re-establish order throughout the empire | |
| 秋风扫落叶 | lit. as the autumn gale sweeps away the fallen leaves (idiom); to drive out the old and ma… | |
| 扫雪车 | snowplow | |
| 横扫千军 | total annihilation | |
| 扫地 | to sweep the floor; (fig.) (of one's reputation etc) to reach rock bottom; to be at an all… | |
| 扫除机 | mechanical sweeper | |
| 打扫 | to clean; to sweep | |
| 颜面扫地 | lit. for one's face to reach rock bottom; to be thoroughly discredited (idiom) | |
| 扫罗 | Saul (name); biblical king around 1000 BC | |
| 扫黄 | campaign against pornography | |
| 扫黑 | to crack down on illegal activities; to fight organized crime | |
| 清扫 | to tidy up; to mop up; a sweep (against crime) |