操 (cāo): meaning and stroke order
操 (cāo) means to grasp, to hold, to operate, to manage, to control, to steer, to exercise.
操
- Simplified
- 操
- Traditional
- 操, 撡
- Pinyin
- cāo · cào
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Stroke order of 操
操
- cāo old variant of 操[cao1]
- cāo to grasp; to hold
- cào variant of 肏[cao4]
- 16 strokes
- Traditional form: 撡
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Meaning of 操
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cāo
- to grasp
- to hold
- to operate
- to manage
- to control
- to steer
- to exercise
- to drill (practice)
- to play
- to speak (a language)
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cāo
Traditional 撡
- old variant of 操[cao1]
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cào
- variant of 肏[cao4]
Radical and structure
- 操
- Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 16 strokes · 扌 on the left, 喿 on the right
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 操
- 操场 cāo chǎng playground; sports field
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).