gǎo

to do

to make; to go in for; to set up; to get hold of; to take care of

hand (扌) + [sound: gāo] (高) = to do, to handle

The hand radical grounds this character in physical doing and handling. 高 gives the sound gǎo and carries no meaning here.

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HandSemantic
TallPhonetic

你在什么?

nǐ zài gǎo shén me ?

What are you doing?

我们要一个小活动来庆祝他的生日。

wǒ men yào gǎo yī gè xiǎo huó dòng lái qìng zhù tā de shēng rì 。

We want to put together a small event to celebrate his birthday.

Words with 搞

难搞

nán gǎo

hard to deal with

乱搞

luàn gǎo

to make a mess

乱搞男女关系

luàn gǎo nán nǚ guān xì

to be promiscuous

怎么搞的

zěn me gǎo de

How did it happen?

恶搞

è gǎo

spoof (web-based genre in PRC, acquiring cult status from 2005, involving humorous, satirical or fantastical videos, photo collections, texts, poems etc)

恶搞文化

è gǎo wén huà

spoofing culture (Web-based genre in PRC acquiring cult status from 2005, involving humorous, satirical or fantastical videos, photo collections, texts, poems etc)

搞不好

gǎo bu hǎo

(coll.) maybe

搞不懂

gǎo bu dǒng

unable to make sense of (sth)

搞乱

gǎo luàn

to mess up

搞基

gǎo jī

(slang) to engage in male homosexual practices

搞好

gǎo hǎo

to do well at

搞定

gǎo dìng

to fix

More characters with 扌