BaoBao Talk
抄
chāo · copy, plagiarism; to confiscate, to seize
- Pinyin
- chāo
- Tone
- first tone, high and level
- Strokes
- 7
- HSK level
- HSK 4
- Radical
- 扌
What 抄 means
- copy, plagiarism
- to confiscate, to seize
How to remember 抄
Its sound decides the scene before you invent anything: the start picks who is in it, the ending picks where, and the tone picks where in that place you are standing.
Actor
the Chef
the ch- sound
Place
the Owl Sanctuary
OW-l
Tone
the flat forecourt out front
level ground, level pitch
Put the Chef at the Owl Sanctuary, the flat forecourt out front, doing something with 扌 and 少 that means “copy, plagiarism”. That one picture carries the sound, the tone and the meaning at once. How the method works →
Why the Chef? the Chef is a man because the initial stands alone, with no medial after it, and the name starts with C to echo the ch- it stands for. All 55 actors →
Stroke order
The diagram above shades the strokes from first to last: the palest stroke is written first, the darkest last. 抄 takes 7 strokes.
What 抄 is built from
扌 少
Characters are made of a small number of repeating parts. Learn the parts once and every character that uses them gets easier.
Remember 抄, don't just look it up
BaoBao Talk turns each character into a scene built from its own sound and tone, so it has something to hang on. The parts repeat, which is why the hundredth character costs less effort than the tenth.