chāo
to copy; transcribe; plagiarise
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他抄了一首诗。
tā chāo le yī shǒu shī.
He copied a poem.
她在抄笔记。
tā zài chāo bǐjì.
She is copying notes.
他们抄了我的作业。
tāmen chāo le wǒ de zuòyè.
They copied my homework.
写 (xiě)
write
录 (lù)
record
The Chinese character 抄 (chāo) is composed of two parts: the radical 手 (shǒu), meaning "hand," and the phonetic component 抄 (chāo), which is a simplified form of the character 鈔 (chāo), meaning "to copy." The original form of 抄 was 鈔, which was composed of the radical 貝 (bèi), meaning "money," and the phonetic component 抄 (chāo). The character 鈔 was originally used to refer to the act of copying money, but over time it came to be used more generally to refer to the act of copying anything. The character 抄 is also used in the sense of "to search" or "to raid," as in the phrase 抄家 (chāo jiā), meaning "to raid a house."
