# 掃 sweep

(handleft) + (snout) + (swordswallower)
★★★☆☆
11 strokes

## Onyomi

SOU | This room is SO dirty. Sweep it!

## Mnemonic

| Take your hand, and sweep the snouts off the floor of the sword-swallower's room (he's been practicing on pigs again)

## Kunyomi

は*く | sweep KANA ★★☆☆☆

## Jukugo

掃除(そうじ) する | house-cleaning ★★★☆☆ FP 1/2 KANA 掃 (sweep) + 除 (exclude) = 掃除 (house-cleaning) house-cleaning. Not just sweeping, but vacuuming, straightening up, smacking the futon, etc.

## Lookalikes

| Meaning | Hint | Radical
--- | --- | --- | ---
掃 | sweep | HAND | 手
帰 | go back home | SWORD | 刀
侵 | perpetrate | PERSON | 人
浸 | immerse | WATER | 水

You use your HANDS to clean,

but use your SWORD to go home

(since there are zombies in your driveway, duh).

A PERSON perpetrates a crime by immersing a wicked witch in WATER. That might have been cool in the '40s but now it's a hate-crime.

## Synonyms

housekeeping, housework 掃除 家事