擦 On the HSK 4 vocabulary list, at CEFR level B2. cā ㄘㄚ to rub to scratch to wipe to polish to apply (lipstick, lotion etc) to brush (past) to shred (a vegetable etc) 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