搞

Stroke order

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

• 𦼸

• 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

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

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

搞

1. to do (usually bad things)

   你搞咩呀！ [Cantonese]  ―  nei⁵ gaau² me¹ aa³! [Jyutping]  ―  What are you doing!

   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! (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

• (to do):

(Hyōgai kanji)

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

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

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