qiào

steep

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
山 meaning component

  Meaning component

shān

  

mountain

肖 sound component

  Sound component

xiàoxiāo

  

look like

Definitions

 

qiào

steep, precipitous, rugged; high and steep; precipitous; severe or stern

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qiào

variant of [qiào]

Most common words with 峭
Freq.
Word
Meaning

峭壁

cliff

陡峭

precipitous

precipitous

悬崖峭壁

sheer cliffs and precipitous rock faces (idiom)

料峭

cold

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2990th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+5CED


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