擦 (cā) means Wipe (rub - polish - clean). Below are 8 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
他用毛巾 擦 了 擦 汗。
Tā yòng máojīn cā le cā hàn.
He wiped his sweat with a towel.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 擦
请用干毛巾 擦 一 擦 。
Qǐng yòng gān máojīn cā yi cā.
Please wipe it with a dry towel.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 干
她 擦 掉了桌上的灰尘。
Tā cā diào le zhuō shàng de huīchén.
She wiped the dust off the table.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 灰尘
他一边哭一边 擦 鼻涕。
Tā yìbiān kū yìbiān cā bítì.
He wiped his nose while he cried.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 鼻涕
他呵着气 擦 干净了镜片。
Tā hēzhe qì cā gānjìng le jìngpiàn.
He breathed on the lenses and wiped them clean.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 呵
两块木头摩 擦 可以生热。
Liǎng kuài mùtou mócā kěyǐ shēng rè.
Rubbing two pieces of wood together produces heat.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 摩擦
同事之间难免有些摩 擦 。
Tóngshì zhījiān nánmiǎn yǒu xiē mócā.
Some friction between colleagues is inevitable.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 摩擦
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Words that contain 擦
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Questions about 擦
How is 擦 used in a sentence?
This page shows 8 sentences using 擦 (cā, "Wipe (rub - polish - clean)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 擦 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 擦 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 擦 an HSK word?
Yes — 擦 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 擦?
The dictionary page for 擦 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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