肏

Translingual

Etymology

入 enter + 肉 flesh, "insert flesh into a part of one's body".

Han character

肏 (radical 130 肉+2, 8 strokes, cangjie input 人人月人 (OOBO), four-corner 8022₇)

1. (vulgar) fuck, (male) to have sex with someone

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 973, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29246
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2931, character 2
• Unihan data for U+808F

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Cantonese

Hanzi

肏 (Yale chaau3)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

pinyin: cào

Verb

alternate forms: 操(pinyin: cào) 肏

1. (vulgar) fuck, to have sex with someone

   肏你媽！ = Fuck your mother!

Interjection

肏

1. (slang, vulgar) a word used to express one's anger.

Hanzi

肏 (pinyin cào (cao4), Wade-Giles ts'ao⁴)

Usage notes

• Commonly used as the English "fuck" as a slang term. Often, the similar-sounding euphemism 靠(pinyin kào) is used as an interjection.

Last modified on 18 October 2012, at 12:42