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旓

shāo

Character

What 旓 means

1. serrated edges on a Chinese flag

Sounds the same

Read shāo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 烧to burn; to set on fire; to heat (over a fire); to boil (water, tea etc); to braise
• 稍somewhat; a little
• 捎to bring sth to sb; to deliver
• 梢tip of branch
• 筲pot-scrubbing brush made of bamboo strips; basket (container) for chopsticks; variant of 筲
• 蛸octopus; used in 蟏蛸
• 艄stern of boat
• 弰ends of a bow
• 莦jungle grass; lair
• 髾tail of a comet; long hair

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• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shāo correctly.
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