操 cāo
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- Made of
- 扌 hand 喿 the sound of birds chirping
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
操作
cāozuò
to operate
Characters in this word
作 zuò
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 亻 — man, person
- Made of
- 亻 man, person 乍 first time, for the first time, suddenly
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 操作很简单。 Cāozuò hěn jiǎndān. Operating it is very simple.
- 请看操作。 Qǐng kàn cāozuò. Please watch how to operate it.
- 我会操作。 Wǒ huì cāozuò. I can operate it.