捎

shāo · HSK 7

to bring sth to sb

📦 扌 (hand) + 肖 (xiāo, resemble) — a hand carries an extra parcel along the way

The hand radical 扌 signals an action done by hand; 肖 lends the shāo-ish sound. Means to bring or pass something along to someone, often as a favor while you're already heading that way.

捎 — hand radical 扌 + 肖 (xiāo, phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound: 扌 (hand) signals an action done by hand, while 肖 supplies the sound shāo. The original sense was to carry or deliver something along the way, as when a traveler hand-delivers a message or parcel for someone else.

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