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CHINESE CHARACTER
- Numbered pinyin
- gao3
- English meanings
- work, set up, work out, organize, cause, etc., produce a certain effect, secure, manage, get hold of, carry, produce, organization, generalized doing: do, start, get, do, be engaged in, generalized doing: work/manage/etc., make, generalized doing: do/work/manage/etc.
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BUILDING BLOCKS
Structure & components
Left–right structure
Left–right arrangement: left 扌; right 高.
Meaning & sound clues
扌 is identified as the meaning component, associated with “hand”.
高 is identified as the sound component (gāo). Its pronunciation may differ from the modern pronunciation of 搞.
This breakdown describes the written shape. A component's meaning does not always explain the meaning of the whole character.
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Characters with the same pinyin, regardless of tone.
accuse
draft; manuscript
cake; pastry
ointment; paste
tall
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Related words
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