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Pronunciation: sāo
Meaning: to scratch, to annoy
Etymology:
Hand 手 (altered to 扌) + flea 蚤 (also phonetic). (associative/phono-semantic compound).

Traditional character: 搔 (roughly the same)

Found in:
Du Fu's 春望

Word of the day on: 05.02.08

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