qiǎo
skillful
Phonosemantic compound. 工 represents the meaning and 丂 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 巧
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
chocolate (loanword) | ||
skill | ||
opportunely | ||
coincidence | ||
ingenious |
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[kʰ]ˤruʔ | khaewX | qiǎo | artful |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 42.8640% of movies
954th most common character in movies
1219th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+5DE7 |
Shuowen | “巧，技也。从工，丂聲。” |
Sources
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