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操作

cāo zuò

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

操作 (cāo zuò) means "to operate". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 操作 means

1. to work
2. to operate
3. to manipulate

The characters in 操作

• 操cāoto grasp; to hold; to operate
• 作zuòto do; to engage in; to write; to compose; to pretend; to feign

Example sentences

• 他能为你暗箱操作。
  Tā néng wèi nǐ ànxiāngcāozuò.
  He can pull strings for you.
• 这台机器很容易操作。
  This machine is easy to handle.
• 她不会操作这台机器。
  She cannot work this machine.
• 你知道怎幺操作电脑吗？
  Do you know how to operate a computer?
• 你最会操作这台机器了。
  You understand best how to use the machine.
• 我不知道怎么操作这台电脑.
  Wǒ bù zhīdào zěnme cāozuò zhè tái diànnǎo.
  I don't know how to operate this computer.

Words starting with 操作

• 操作系统cāo zuò xì tǒngoperating system
• 操作台cāo zuò táioperating desk; control panel; console
• 操作员cāo zuò yuánoperator
• 操作数cāo zuò shùoperand (computing)
• 操作符cāo zuò fúoperator (computing)
• 操作者cāo zuò zhěoperator
• 操作环境cāo zuò huán jìngoperating environment
• 操作规程cāo zuò guī chéngoperating rules; work regulations

Words containing 操作

• 网络操作系统wǎng luò cāo zuò xì tǒngnetwork operating system
• 暗箱操作àn xiāng cāo zuòcovert activities (election rigging etc); under-the-table manipulations; black operations
• 遥控操作yáo kòng cāo zuòremote operation
• 黑箱操作hēi xiāng cāo zuòsee 暗箱操作

Where 操作 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · cǎo–chà (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read cāo zuò correctly.
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