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Translingual

Han character

(radical 64 +10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 手卜口月 (QYRB), four-corner 50027, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 447, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12489
  • Dae Jaweon: page 798, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1935, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+641E

Chinese

simp. and trad.
alt. forms Cantonese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kaːw
*kaːw, *kaːws
*kaːw
稿 *kaːwʔ
*kaːwʔ, *kʰaːws
*kaːwʔ, *kʰaːwʔ
*kaːwʔ, *kaːws
*kaːwʔ
*kaːwʔ
*kaːwʔ
*kʰaːwʔ
*kʰaːwʔ, *kʰaːws, *qʰaːw
*kʰaːws
*qʰaːw
*qʰaːws, *qʰraːw, *qʰraw
*ɡaːw
*ɡaːw
*ɡaːw
*ɡaːw
*ɡaːwʔ
*ɡaːwʔ, *qʰraːwɢ
*ɡaːwʔ, *kʰraːw, *qʰaːwɢ
*ɡaːwʔ, *qʰaːwɢ
*ɡaːwʔ
*kruːʔ
*kʰraːw, *kʰraːws
*qʰraːw
*qʰraːw, *qʰraːws, *qʰaːwɢ
*kʰl'awʔ
*qʰraw, *qʰoːwɢ
*qʰaːwɢ, *qʰraːwɢ
*qʰaːwɢ, *qʰoːwɢ, *qʰoːɡ
*kʰraːwɢ
*kʰraːwɢ
*kʰraːwɢ
*qʰraːwɢ, *ɡraːwɢ, *ɡoːwɢ
*qʰraːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kruːʔ) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *kaːw).

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /kɑu²¹⁴/
Harbin /kau²¹³/
Tianjin /kɑu¹³/
Jinan /kɔ⁵⁵/
Qingdao /kɔ⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /kau⁵³/
Xi'an /kau⁵³/
Xining /kɔ⁵³/
Yinchuan /kɔ⁵³/
Lanzhou /kɔ⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /kɔ⁵¹/
Wuhan /kau⁴²/
Chengdu /kau⁵³/
Guiyang /kao⁴²/
Kunming /kɔ⁵³/
Nanjing /kɔo²¹²/
Hefei /kɔ²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /kau⁵³/
Pingyao /kɔ⁵³/
Hohhot /kɔ⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /gɔ²³/
Suzhou /gæ³¹/
Hangzhou /kɔ⁵³/
Wenzhou /kɜ³⁵/
Hui Shexian /kɔ³⁵/
Tunxi /ko²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /kau⁴¹/
Xiangtan /kaɯ⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /kɑu²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /kau³¹/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /kau³⁵/
Nanning /kau³⁵/
Hong Kong /kau³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kau⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kau³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kau²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kau⁵³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /kau²¹³/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 3756
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kruːʔ/
Notes

Definitions

  1. to do
  2. to work in; to be engaged in
  3. to make; to produce
  4. to manage; to take care of
  5. to get; to get hold of
  6. to set up; to organize
  7. (slang) to have sex; to ****

Compounds

  • 怎麼搞的怎么搞的
  • 搞七捻三
  • 搞不好
  • 搞不懂
  • 搞丟搞丢
  • 搞亂搞乱
  • 搞妥
  • 搞定 (gǎodìng)
  • 搞怪
  • 搞懂
  • 搞活 (gǎohuó)
  • 搞破鞋
  • 搞砸
  • 搞笑 (gǎoxiào)
  • 搞頭搞头
  • 搞飛機搞飞机
  • 搞鬼 (gǎoguǐ)
  • 瞎搞
  • 胡搞 (húgǎo)

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Vietnamese

Han character

(cào, cạo, cảo, xao, quào)

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