jiāo

seductive and loveable

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
女 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

woman

喬 sound component

  Sound component

qiáo

  

tall

Evolution

嬌 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
嬌 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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jiāo

seductive and loveable; tender; lovable; pampered; delicate; frail

Most common words with 嬌
Freq.
Word
Meaning

lovable

娇小

petite

撒娇

to throw a tantrum

娇嫩

fragile

娇生惯养

pampered and spoiled since childhood

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.5400% of movies

2702nd most common character in movies

2158th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+5B0C

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“嬌,姿也。从女,喬聲。”


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