搓
Tap the pinyin to hear it
to rub or roll between the hands or fingers; to twist
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 手 +10
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 搓
- Common rank
- #3,469
- Unicode
- U+6413
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
massage · Heisig RSH #1861
fingers + 差 fall short of
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 搓
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 搓衣板 | washboard | |
| 搓麻将 | to play mahjong | |
| 手搓 | to make by hand; to hand-craft | |
| 搓板 | washboard; (slang) flat-chested (woman) | |
| 搓洗 | to rub clean (garments); to scrub | |
| 暗搓搓 | see 暗戳戳[an4 chuo1 chuo1] | |
| 揉搓 | to rub; to torment; to torture | |
| 搓揉 | to knead; to rub |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 差 — compare how they read.