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扫 — to sweep; to sweep away

to sweep; to sweep away; to wipe out; to get rid of

Pinyin
sǎo · sào
Strokes
6
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — sǎo, sào — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 扫: 6 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

扫 — 6 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 扫 in the HSK syllabus: 9

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 打扫dǎsǎoto clean; to sweepHSK 3
  2. 扫sǎoto sweep; to sweep away; to wipe out; to get rid ofHSK 3
  3. 扫码sǎomǎto scan a QR code or barcodeHSK 4
  4. 清扫qīngsǎoto tidy up; to mop up; a sweepHSK 6
  5. 扫描sǎomiáoto scanHSK 6
  6. 扫除sǎochúto clean; to clean up; to eliminate; to wipe outHSK 7–9
  7. 扫墓sǎomùto sweep a graveHSK 7–9
  8. 扫兴sǎoxìngto spoil things; to dampen spiritsHSK 7–9
  9. 扫帚sàozhoubroomHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.