Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- gǎo
English
- to clear, clarify
- to do
- (Cantonese)
- to make
- to harras or disturb
- to go in for
- to create trouble
- to set up
- to get hold of
- to take care of
- to do; to be engaged in a task; to arrange; to manage; to figure out (see 拆 caak3, sense 5)
- to do something to someone or something else; to harass; to disturb; see 整 zing2
粵語
- 做（一啲事）；解決問題，拆
- 對某物件或某人做一啲事；騷擾某物件或某人；整
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 搞
- 搞笑gaau2 siu3
to get people to laugh
- 搞鬼gaau2 gwai2
to make mischief
- 搞錯gaau2 co3
mistake
- 搞到gaau2 dou3
to end up (from any actions)
- 搞事gaau2 si6
troublemaking
- 搞作gaau2 zok3
collaboration, project
- 搞手gaau2 sau2
organizer
- 難搞naan4 gaau2
hard to deal with
- 搞基gaau2 gei1
(slang) to engage in male homosexual practices
- 搞掂gaau2 dim6
to get sth done; to sort sth out (from Cantonese)
- 惡搞ok3 gaau2
spoof (web-based genre in PRC, acquiring cult status from 2005, involving humorous, satirical or fantastical videos, photo collections, texts, poems etc)
- 搞亂gaau2 lyun6
to mess up
- 咪搞mai5 gaau2
Don't include
- 搞彎gaau2 waang1
to spoil; to ruin [colloquial]
- 搞妥gaau2 to5
to settle; to secure; to get hold of [colloquial]
- 搞大gaau2 daai6
to make a big deal out of something; to make something a bigger deal than it is
- 盞搞zaan2 gaau2
(verb) to do something or work for almost nil; to do something but all to no avail;
- 搞錢gaau2 cin2
to make money
- 打搞daa2 gaau2
(humble) to disturb; to trouble
- 搞正gaau2 zeng3
to kill; to resolve an issue [colloquial]
- 搞嘢gaau2 je5
troublemaking
- 搞法gaau2 faat3
method
- 搞清gaau2 cing1
to figure out, to understand clearly
- 搞通gaau2 tung1
to make sense of sth