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Translingual [edit]

Etymology [edit]

enter + flesh, "insert flesh into a part of one's body".

Han character [edit]

(radical 130 +2, 8 strokes, cangjie input 人人月人 (OOBO), four-corner 80227)

  1. (vulgar) fuck, (male) to have sex with someone

References [edit]

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 973, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29246
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2931, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+808F

Cantonese [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(Yale chaau3)


Mandarin [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

pinyin: cào

Verb [edit]

alternate forms: (pinyin: cào)

  1. (vulgar) fuck, to have sex with someone
    肏你媽! = Fuck your mother!

Interjection [edit]

  1. (slang, vulgar) a word used to express one's anger.

Hanzi [edit]

(pinyin cào (cao4), Wade-Giles ts'ao4)

Usage notes [edit]

  • Commonly used as the English "fuck" as a slang term. Often, the similar-sounding euphemism (pinyin kào) is used as an interjection.