# 搔

| 搔 | U+6414, &#25620; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6414 |
| ← 搓 [U+6413] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 搕 → [U+6415] |

## Translingual

| Japanese | 掻 |
| Simplified | 搔 |
| Traditional | 搔 |

### Han character

搔 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 手水戈戈 (QEII), four-corner 5703$_6$, composition ⿰扌蚤)

#### Descendants

* 掻

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 446, character 25
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12477
* Dae Jaweon: page 797, character 9
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1939, character 6
* Unihan data for U+6414

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 搔
* Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
* Small seal script
| | Old Chinese |
| 蚤 | *ʔsuːʔ |
| 慅 | *sʰuːʔ, *suː |
| 騷 | *suː |
| 搔 | *suː |
| 鰠 | *suː |
| 溞 | *suː |
| 颾 | *suː |
| 瘙 | *suːs |
| 瑵 | *ʔsruːʔ |
| 糔 | *suʔ |
| 鼜 | *sʰɯːwɢ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *suː): semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 蚤 (OC *ʔsuːʔ, “flea, louse”).

### Etymology

Schuessler (2007) considers 掃 (OC *suːʔ, *suːs, “to brush”) to be cognate and suggests a Sino-Tibetan etymology, relating it to Chepang साव्‌सा (saw-, “to itch”), सोस्‌सा (sos‑, “to itch”), Bodo (India) [script needed] (su-, “to itch”).
Baxter and Sagart (2014) relates it to 爪 (OC *ʔsruːʔ, “claw”).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): sāo (sao$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄙㄠ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): sou$^1$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): so / so͘ / sau
    (Teochew, Peng'im): sao$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: sāo
*** Zhuyin: ㄙㄠ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: sao
*** Wade–Giles: sao$^1$
*** Yale: sāu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sau
*** Palladius: сао (sao)
*** Sinological IPA : /sɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: sou$^1$
*** Yale: sōu
*** Cantonese Pinyin: sou$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: sou$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /sou̯⁵⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: so
*** Tâi-lô: so
*** Phofsit Daibuun: soy
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /sɤ⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /so³³/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /so⁴⁴/
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: so͘
*** Tâi-lô: soo
*** Phofsit Daibuun: sof
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /sɔ³³/
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sau
*** Tâi-lô: sau
*** Phofsit Daibuun: saw
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /sau³³/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /sau⁴⁴/
* so/so͘ - literary;
* sau - vernacular.
* Middle Chinese: saw
Rime :
| Character | 搔 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 心 (16) |
| Final (韻) | 豪 (89) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 蘇遭切 |
| Baxter | saw |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /sɑu/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /sɑu/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /sɑu/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /saw/ |
| Li Rong | /sɑu/ |
| Wang Li | /sɑu/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /sɑu/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | sāo |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | sou$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-[ts]ˤu/
    (Zhengzhang): /*suː/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 搔 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | sāo |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ saw › |
| Old Chinese | /*s-[ts]ˁu/ |
| English | scratch (v.) |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 搔 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 16555 |
| Phonetic component | 蚤 |
| Rime group | 幽 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 騷 |
| Old Chinese | /*suː/ |

### Definitions

搔
* to scratch
    搔癢／搔痒 ― sāoyǎng ― to scratch an itch

#### Synonyms

| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | Classical Chinese | 搔 |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 搔, 撓 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 搔, 抓 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 𢯎, 搲 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 𢯎, 搲 |
| Cantonese | Taishan | 搲 |
| Cantonese | Yangjiang | 𢯎 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 搲 |
| Hakka | Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 爪 |
| Hakka | Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 爪 |
| Hakka | Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 爪 |
| Hakka | Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 爪 |
| Hakka | Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 爪 |
| Hakka | Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 爪 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 扒 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 扒 |
| Southern Min | Quanzhou | 扒 |
| Southern Min | Zhangzhou | 扒 |
| Southern Min | Tainan | 扒 |
| Southern Min | Singapore (Hokkien) | 扒 |
| Southern Min | Manila (Hokkien) | 扒 |
| Southern Min | Shantou (Chaoyang) | 扒 |
| Southern Min | Puning | 嬈, 扒 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 抓 |
| Wu | Suzhou | 抓 |
| Wu | Wenzhou | 抓 |

## Japanese

| Shinjitai (extended) | 掻 |
| Kyūjitai | 搔 |

### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 掻)
* to scratch
* to make noise

#### Readings

* Go-on: そう (sō)
* Kan-on: そう (sō)
* Kun: かい (kai, 搔い)、かき (kaki, 搔き)、かく (kaku, 搔く)、さわぐ (sawagu, 搔ぐ)

## Korean
### Hanja

搔 • (so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune–Reischauer so, Yale so)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

搔: Hán Nôm readings: trao, tao, trau
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