肏 (cào): to fuck

Meanings

1 to fuck
2 to have sexual intercourse with

Characters

肏

cào

to fuck (vulgar)

Examples

HSK 3

在正式场合绝对不能用这个字。

Zài zhèngshì chǎnghé juéduì bùnéng yòng zhège zì.

This character must never be used in formal settings.

HSK 7-9

这是一个非常粗俗的字。

Zhè shì yīgè fēicháng cūsú de zì.

This is a very vulgar character.

Tips

register

Crudely transparent compositional character: 入 (enter) on top + 肉 (flesh) on bottom. Highly vulgar - equivalent to English 'fuck'. In writing, it is almost always replaced by the homophone 操 (cāo) or by 草 (cǎo) for online filter avoidance, or by '×' / 'x'. Not appropriate in any polite context.

Components

radical

肉 ròu

flesh; meat

Bottom 肉 - full-form flesh, the indexing radical (rather than the squished 月 variant seen in most body-part chars). Together with 入 on top the meaning is graphically transparent: entering flesh. The bluntness of the graph matches the vulgarity of the word - there is no euphemism in the writing.

semantic

入 rù

to enter

Top 入 - two strokes meeting at a point, picturing a wedge or arrowhead going into something. The semantic core of 肏: entry, penetration. The graph is deliberately explicit - early lexicographers placed the meaning entirely in this top piece, leaving the bottom to localise it.

No stroke data for 肏; the glyph shown is your device font, so component strokes can't be highlighted.