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cāo

to conduct, to manage, to run

🔤 Pictophonetic: 扌 (hand) provides meaning, 喿 provides pronunciation
HSK 5 16 strokes Common (12%)

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⿰扌喿 i

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Component Tree i

shǒu
hand
📷 Pictographic: A hand with the fingers splayed; compare 手
3 strokes
zào
the sound of birds chirping
💡 Ideographic: Several birds 品 chirping in a tree 木
13 strokes

Words Using 操 (73)

cāoxīn
操心
HSK 5
to worry about
cāochǎng
操场
HSK 5
playground / sports field / drill ground / CL:[[個|个<gè>]]
cāozuò
操作
HSK 6
to work / to operate / to manipulate
cāoliàn
操练
HSK 6
drill / practice
cāozòng
操纵
HSK 6
to operate / to control / to rig / to manipulate
cāoláo
操劳
HSK 6
to work hard / to look after
cāo
old variant of [[操<cāo>]]
cāo
to grasp / to hold / to operate / to manage / to control / to steer / to exercise / to drill (practice) / to play / to speak (a language)
cāokòng
操控
to control / to manipulate
CáoCāo
曹操
Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei [[曹魏]], father of Emperor Cao Pi [[曹丕]] / the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms [[三國演義|三国演义]]
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