搞

Translingual

Stroke order

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

• 𦼸

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

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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 + 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?”)

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 搞

1. to do

   唔好搞我後面！ [Cantonese, trad.]
   唔好搞我后面！ [Cantonese, simp.]

   From: 2019, [1]

   m⁴ hou² gaau² ngo⁵ hau⁶ min⁶! [Jyutping]

   don't mess around behind me! (also "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): 辦／办 (bàn), 幹／干 (gàn), 整治 (zhěngzhì), 作 (zuò), 做 (zuò)

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

搞

(uncommon “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)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 搞 (cào, cạo, cảo, xao, quào)

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