扫
sǎosào HSK4

sweep

扫 掃 sǎo frequency
to sweep verb
to sweep with a brush or broom; to clean up

孩子们在打扫校园。

hái​zi​men zài dǎ sǎo xiào​yuán.

The children are cleaning the campus.

to scan verbnoun
to glance at; to sweep one's eyes over; to scan quickly with the eyes or a device
to eliminate
to sweep away; to wipe out; to exterminate
to paint
(bound form) to paint, draw, or apply lightly, as with eyebrows or calligraphy
to dampen
to discourage or ruin (someone's spirits or enthusiasm)
entirely
(bound form) completely; in full; all
扫 掃 sào
broom noun
(bound form) a broom; a cleaning tool made of bundles of straw or twigs

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,435th most common 78.2 per million
Movie subtitles
1,300th most common 59.7 per million appears in 27% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
11.7 per million appears in 5% of films
Written text
26.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Traditional
掃
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+626B

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)