掃
부수: 扌
획수: 11획
掃 has the meanings to sweep, to clean and to clear away.
掃 = 扌 + 帚
X = semantic + semantic/phonetic
• 扌 is a component form of 手. It depicts a hand and represents the meaning of ‘actions done with the hands’.
• 帚 depicts a hand putting a broom into a rack and means ‘broom’.
Evolution:
掃 = to sweep ➔ to clear away
帚 = 彐 + 巾 + 冖
• 彐 is a distortion of ‘hand’.
• 巾 is a distortion of ‘broom’
• 冖 is distortion of ‘a rack to hold the broom’.
Together, 帚 depicts a hand putting a broom into a rack.
Mnemonic
Imagine 掃 to be the left-hand 扌 holding onto the broom rack 冖, while the right-hand 彐 puts the room 巾 into the rack.
Vocab
| 掃射 | 소사 | machine gun strafe |
| 掃除 | 소제 | cleaning |
| 淸掃 | 청소 | cleaning |
| 淸掃機 | 청소기 | vacuum cleaner |
| 淸掃夫 | 청소부 | a street cleaner |
| 掃去 | 소거 | eradication; erasure |
| 一掃 | 일소 | sweep; elimination |
| 掃滅 | 소멸 | extermination; dissolution |
| 掃蕩 | 소탕 | sweep (police operation) |
| 掃海 | 소해 | sea mine clearing |
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Affiliate links help support uK.
— Daum 사전, [s.v. 掃].
— Grant, B.K. (1982). A Guide To Korean Characters: Reading and Writing Hangul and Hanja, [s.v. 939]. Seoul: Hollym.
— Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters, [s.v. 掃, 扌, 帚].
— Seely, C., Henshall, K.G., & Fan, J. (2016). The Complete Guide to Japanese Kanji: Remembering and Understanding the 2,136 Standard Japanese Characters, [s.v. 1633]. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing.