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操纵

cāo zòng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 操縱

操纵 (cāo zòng) means "to operate; to control; to rig". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 操纵 means

1. to operate
2. to control
3. to rig
4. to manipulate

The characters in 操纵

• 操cāoto grasp; to hold; to operate
• 纵zòngvertical; north-south (Taiwan pr. zōng); from front to back; longitudinal…

Example sentences

• 幕后操纵者是谁？
  Mùhòucāozòng zhě shì shéi?
  Who's behind it?
• 在《WHAT THE CAR?》中，您将操纵长着腿的汽车，在离谱又富有创意的关卡中赛跑。
  In WHAT THE CAR?, you play as a car with legs, racing through absurdly creative levels.

Words starting with 操纵

• 操纵杆cāo zòng gǎnjoystick; control lever
• 操纵自如cāo zòng zì rúto operate (a machine etc) with ease

Words containing 操纵

• 幕后操纵mù hòu cāo zòngto manipulate from behind the scenes; to pull the strings

Where 操纵 is taught

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

Go deeper

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