搞
gǎo HSK5

to do, take care of

搞 gǎo
do verb
to do, to make, or to engage in an activity

你在搞什么名堂？

nǐ zài gǎo shén​me míng​tang?

What are you up to?

obtain verb
to get hold of or procure something

你能帮我搞到那本书吗？

nǐ néng bāng wǒ gǎo dào nà běn shū ma?

Can you help me get a hold of that book?

set up verb
to set up, establish, or organize

学校打算搞一个校庆活动。

xué​xiào dǎ​suàn gǎo yī gè xiào​qìng huó​dòng.

The school plans to hold an anniversary celebration.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,146th most common 125.4 per million
Movie subtitles
376th most common 397.1 per million appears in 80% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
544.4 per million appears in 80% of films
Written text
221.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+641E

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)