捎 (shāo): to bring sth to sb, to deliver
捎 (shāo) is a Chinese character meaning “to bring sth to sb.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 扌 (semantic) and 肖 (phonetic). It ranks #2942 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 捎 hand. Its radical form 扌 (hand) appears in many related characters such as 手 (shǒu, hand), 打 (dǎ, hit, make), 找 (zhǎo, to look for).
Definitions
- to bring sth to sb
- to deliver
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
捎 appears in 2 compound words: 100 as the first character, 0 as the last, and 0 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 捎 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
他捎了一个电话，约朋友晚上一起吃饭。
tā shāo le yī gě diàn huà , yāo péng yǒu wǎn shǎng yī qǐ chī fàn .
He made a phone call to invite his friend out for dinner that evening.
除了巡天的“主业”，罗曼还捎上了一台日冕仪。
chú le xún tiān de zhǔ yè , luó màn hái shāo shàng le yī tái rì 冕 yí .
In addition to its "primary mission" of conducting a sky survey, Roman also carried a coronagraph.
而且，这份工作还捎带“毁掉”了很多我喜欢的音乐。
ér qiě , zhè fèn gōng zuò hái shāo dài huǐ diào le hěn duō wǒ xǐ huān de yīn lè .
What’s more, this job has also “ruined” a lot of the music I love.
这些年，为了节约钱，安三山去太原，要么在路边拦便车，要么听到有熟人要去就顺道捎上他。
zhè xiē nián , wéi le jié yuē qián , ān sān shān qù tài yuán , yāo má zài lù biān lán biàn chē , yāo má tīng dào yǒu shú rén yāo qù jiù shùn dào shāo shàng tā .
Over the years, to save money, whenever An Sanshan went to Taiyuan, he would either hitchhike along the roadside or ask an acquaintance who was heading there to give him a ride.
Character Family
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