掃 Simplified: 扫 On the HSK 4 vocabulary list, at CEFR level B2. sǎo ㄙㄠˇ to sweep (with a brush or broom) to sweep away to wipe out to get rid of to sweep (one's eyes etc) over to scan sào ㄙㄠˋ a (large) broom bound form Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT