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Kanji Detail for 騷 - "disturb, noisy"

騷

  • Meaning

    騷 means "disturb, noisy." Also associated with poetry.

    1. Noisy - Loud; clamorous.

    2. Disturb - To agitate; to trouble.

    3. Poetry - A style of verse.

  • Origin of 騷

    馬, the horse, beside 蚤, the flea, which supplies the sound — the Japanese standard 騒 writing that side without 蚤's two dots. The Shuowen glosses 騷 as disturbance, one reading even taking it as currying a horse, and from there, noise and commotion.

    How to remember it: A horse 馬 with fleas 蚤 — it will not stand still and it will not be quiet: uproar.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

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    • Verified meaning: disturb, noisy
    • Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
    • Also carries these associations: poetry

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

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  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    harass; bother; annoy; disturb; agitate; sad; grieved

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    harass, bother, annoy, disturb, agitate; sad, grieved

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    (bound form) to disturb; to disrupt; flirty; coquettish; abbr. for 離騷|离骚[Li2 Sao1]; (literary) literary writings; poetry; foul-smelling (variant of 臊[sao1]); (dialect) (of certain domestic animals) male

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to annoy, to bother; to disturb, to harrass

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    To disturb. Such as levies and corvée labor that cause people to become alarmed and unsettled are called 騷擾 (disturb). | Worried. In the Warring States period, Qu Yuan wrote "Li Sao" (Encountering Sorrow). Meaning encountering worry. A person who is frustrated is called 牢騷 (discontent). This is the same meaning. Also, poetry is called 風騷. Therefore poets are also called 騷人 (poets).

  • Onyomi

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    soh(ソウ) ソウ

  • Kunyomi

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    sawa.gu(さわ-ぐ) さわ-ぐ

    sawaga.shii(さわがしい) さわがしい

    urei(うれ-い) うれ-い

  • Strokes

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    20 strokes

  • Radical

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    馬 (uma・umahen)

  • Related Keywords

    noisy disturb poetry commotion uproar noise agitate agitation chaos clamor din disorder disruption hubbub loud pandemonium racket tumult turmoil unrest verse

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