搞

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搞 U+641E, 搞
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-641E
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Translingual

Stroke order
13 strokes

Han character

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

Derived characters

References

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 搞
alternative forms 攪／搅 Cantonese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (高) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
高 *kaːw
膏 *kaːw, *kaːws
篙 *kaːw
稿 *kaːwʔ
稾 *kaːwʔ, *kʰaːws
槁 *kaːwʔ, *kʰaːwʔ
縞 *kaːwʔ, *kaːws
暠 *kaːwʔ
槀 *kaːwʔ
藁 *kaːwʔ
燺 *kʰaːwʔ
薧 *kʰaːwʔ, *kʰaːws, *qʰaːw
犒 *kʰaːws
蒿 *qʰaːw
藃 *qʰaːws, *qʰraːw, *qʰraw
豪 *ɡaːw
毫 *ɡaːw
壕 *ɡaːw
濠 *ɡaːw
鎬 *ɡaːwʔ
滈 *ɡaːwʔ, *qʰraːwɢ
鄗 *ɡaːwʔ, *kʰraːw, *qʰaːwɢ
鰝 *ɡaːwʔ, *qʰaːwɢ
薃 *ɡaːwʔ
搞 *kruːʔ
敲 *kʰraːw, *kʰraːws
髇 *qʰraːw
嗃 *qʰraːw, *qʰraːws, *qʰaːwɢ
巐 *kʰl'awʔ
歊 *qʰraw, *qʰoːwɢ
謞 *qʰaːwɢ, *qʰraːwɢ
熇 *qʰaːwɢ, *qʰoːwɢ, *qʰoːɡ
碻 *kʰraːwɢ
塙 *kʰraːwɢ
毃 *kʰraːwɢ
翯 *qʰraːwɢ, *ɡraːwɢ, *ɡoːwɢ
瀥 *qʰraːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kruːʔ) : semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 高.

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From a non-Mandarin Chinese 攪?”)

Pronunciation

Note: vernacular (俗).
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 搞
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 (Hokkien) /kau⁵³/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /kau³²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /kau²¹/
Shantou (Teochew) /kau⁵³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /kau²¹³/
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 搞
Reading # 1/1
No. 3756
Phonetic
component 		高
Rime
group 		幽
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		絞
Old
Chinese 		/*kruːʔ/
Notes 攪今字

Definitions

搞

  1. to do (usually bad things)
    你搞咩呀！ [Cantonese]  ―  nei5 gaau2 me1 aa3!   ―  What are you doing!
    唔好搞我後面！ [Cantonese, trad.]
    唔好搞我后面！ [Cantonese, simp.]
    From: 2019,
    m4 hou2 gaau2 ngo5 hau6 min6!
    don't mess around behind me! (or: don't mess with my rear!)
  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 fuck

Synonyms

  • (to do):

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

搞

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: きょう (kyō)
  • Kan-on: こう (kō)
  • Kun: たたく (tataku, 搞く)

Vietnamese

Han character

搞: Hán Nôm readings: cào, cạo, cảo, xao, quào

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