The kanji 掃: meaning, readings and stroke order
掃
- Meaning
- sweep
- On reading
- ソウ sou
- Kun reading
- は(く) haku
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 手 hand
- Level
- Level 8 · the last years of junior high
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- quét (tảo)
- Japanese
- はく。きれいに する。
- Korean
- 쓸다 (소)
- Chinese
- 扫、打扫 (扫)
Readings, words and example sentences
ソウ sou · on reading
掃除
cleaning
毎日 教室の 掃除を します。
We clean the classroom every day.
は(く) haku · kun reading
掃く
to sweep
ほうきで 庭を 掃きます。
I sweep the yard with a broom.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.