抄
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to make a copy; to plagiarize; to search and seize; to raid; to grab; to go off with; to take a shortcut; to make a turning move; to fold one's arms
7 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,835 U+6284
How 抄 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
扌 (semantic, “hand”) + 少 (phonetic, shǎo)
How to remember it
copy · Heisig RSH #1839
fingers + 少 few
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 少
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 少 (shǎo) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 少 sound component | shǎo | few, little; less; inadequate |
| 沙 | shā | sand, gravel, pebbles; granulated |
| 省 | shěng | province; frugal; to save, to leave out |
| 妙 | miào | mysterious, subtle; clever, exquisite, wonderful |
| 炒 | chǎo | to boil, to fry, to roast, to sauté; to trade stock |
| 纱 | shā | gauze, muslin, yarn |
| 秒 | miǎo | a second; a corn kernel; measure word for time |
| 钞 | chāo | bank note, paper money; to counterfeit |
| 吵 | chǎo | to argue, to dispute; to annoy, to disturb |
| 耖 | chào | harrow-like implement for pulverizing clods of soil; to level ground with such an implemen… |
Words containing 抄
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一言抄百总 | yī yán chāo bǎi zǒng | to cut a long story short |
| 小抄儿 | xiǎo chāo r | erhua variant of 小抄[xiao3 chao1] |
| 文抄公 | wén chāo gōng | plagiarist |
| 抄小路 | chāo xiǎo lù | to take the back roads; to take the side streets; to take the small paths |
| 手抄本 | shǒu chāo běn | manuscript copy of a book (before the printing press) |
| 抄后路 | chāo hòu lù | to outflank and attack from the rear |
| 抄经士 | chāo jīng shì | copyist; scribe |
| 抄近儿 | chāo jìn r | erhua variant of 抄近[chao1 jin4] |
| 做小抄 | zuò xiǎo chāo | to prepare a crib sheet; to crib; to cheat by copying |
| 抄近路 | chāo jìn lù | to take a shortcut |
| 小抄 | xiǎo chāo | cheat sheet; crib sheet |
| 抄家 | chāo jiā | to search a house and confiscate possessions |
| 抄手 | chāo shǒu | to fold one's arms; copyist; (dialect) wonton |
| 抄道 | chāo dào | to take a shortcut |
| 抄本 | chāo běn | handwritten copy |
| 抄身 | chāo shēn | to search (a person); to frisk |
| 抄网 | chāo wǎng | dip net |
| 传抄 | chuán chāo | to copy (a text) from person to person; (of a text) to be transmitted by copying |
| 包抄 | bāo chāo | to outflank; to envelop |
| 抄底 | chāo dǐ | (finance) to snap up undervalued stocks; bargain-hunting; bottom-fishing |