搞 gǎo
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- Made of
- 扌 hand 高 tall, lofty
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
搞鬼
gǎoguǐ
to play tricks; to make trouble secretly
Characters in this word
鬼 guǐ
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 鬼 — ghost
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 账目突然对不上，审计人员怀疑有人在采购合同里搞鬼。 Zhàngmù tūrán duì bù shàng, shěnjì rényuán huáiyí yǒurén zài cǎigòu hétong lǐ gǎoguǐ. When the accounts suddenly failed to match, the auditors suspected that someone had been up to something in the procurement contracts.
- 他一直笑嘻嘻的，我觉得他肯定在背后搞鬼。 Tā yìzhí xiàoxīxī de, wǒ juéde tā kěndìng zài bèihòu gǎoguǐ. He has been grinning the whole time, and I think he must be up to some trick behind the scenes.
- 电脑突然黑屏了，难道是谁在搞鬼？ Diànnǎo tūrán hēipíng le, nándào shì shéi zài gǎoguǐ? The computer screen suddenly went black; could someone be messing with it?
Related words
- 搞 gǎo to do
- 搞好 gǎohǎo to do well; to make ready
- 搞笑 gǎoxiào to be funny; to make people laugh
- 鬼 guǐ ghost
- 酒鬼 jiǔguǐ drunkard
- 胆小鬼 dǎnxiǎoguǐ coward; scaredy-cat
- 魔鬼 móguǐ devil; demon
- 讥笑 jīxiào to mock; to ridicule
- 忽悠 hūyou to fool; to hoodwink
- 嘲弄 cháonòng to mock; to ridicule
- 恶作剧 èzuòjù prank; practical joke
- 耻笑 chǐxiào to ridicule; to mock