掃

to sweep

broom

broom

"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc

variant of 帚[zhou3]

to clean / to sweep

to scan

to sweep the floor / (fig.) (of one's reputation etc) to reach rock bottom / to be at an all-time low

broom

scanner (device)

to rake with machine gunfire / to strafe / to machine-gun down

broom

scanner

to clear off / to make a clean sweep of

to complete the last stage of work / to round off

to sweep a grave (and pay one's respects to the dead person)

to sweep clean / to clean out

comet / jinx / bearer of ill luck

to lose every scrap of reputation

Sweeper Monk, nameless monk who maintains the library of Shaolin (from Jin Yong's novel "Demigods and Semidevils" 天龍八部|天龙八部[Tian1 long2 Ba1 Bu4]) / (fig.) person whose remarkable talents are not well known

see 回描[hui2 miao2]

bearer of ill luck / person with the evil eye / comet

to be thoroughly discredited / to fall into disrepute

sweep the snow from your own door step, don't worry about the frost on your neighbor's roof (idiom)

whisk