搔
sāo

to scratch

搔 sāo
to scratch verb
to scratch lightly with one's fingernails or an object

他搔了搔手臂上被虫叮咬过的地方。

tā sāo le sāo shǒu​bì shang bèi chóng dīng​yǎo guo de dì​fang.

He scratched his arm where he had been bitten by an insect.

to disturb
(bound form) to disturb or disrupt; to agitate
foul-smelling
(variant) foul-smelling; same as 臊 sāo
flirty
coquettish or flirty
poetry
literary writings or poetry
Li Sao
abbreviation for the poem Li Sao 离骚 lí​sāo
male
(dialect) referring to certain domestic animals, particularly male animals

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Frequency
Character
Written text
3,454th most common 5.58 per million
Movie subtitles
3,675th most common 1.11 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.950 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.18 per million

Details
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+6414

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