肏

肏 U+808F, 肏 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-808F ← 肎 [U+808E] CJK Unified Ideographs 肐 → [U+8090]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 𡌵

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		肏
alternative forms		操 草 internet 艸 internet 艹 internet

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 入 (“enter”) + 肉 (“flesh”).

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cào (cao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): caau³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: cào
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄠˋ
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻao4
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsaw
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cào
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: caau³
    • Yale: chaau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsaau³
    • Guangdong Romanization: cao³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰäːu̯³³/

Definitions

肏

1. (vulgar, usually of a male) to fuck; to have sex with someone

   肏你媽！ / 肏你妈！  ―  Cào nǐ mā!  ―  Fuck your mother!

   Synonym: 日 (rì)

2. (vulgar) a word used to express one's anger: fuck!

Usage notes

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

Synonyms

• (Cantonese, Hakka) 屌 (diu2)
• (Hokkien) 姦／奸 (kàn)
• (Min Dong) 𠚺 (shà)

Compounds

• 肏你媽／肏你妈 (càonǐmā)

• 肏你媽屄／肏你妈屄

• 肏屄 (cào bī)