抄 chāo HSK4 copy, grab Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 少 represents the sound. Components 扌 扌 Meaning component shou, shǒu hand 扌 is a component form of 手. 少 少 Sound component shǎo, shao, shào few Historical Pronunciations Old ChineseZhengzhangsm̥ʰreːwsm̥ʰreːws Sources Character origin 漢語多功能字庫Readings & variants Unicode Historical pronunciations Zhengzhang Shangfang