qiáo
bridge
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 乔 represents the sound. Simplified form of 橋.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 桥
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
bridge | ||
Da Qiao, one of the Two Qiaos, according to Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义[SānguóYǎnyì], the two great beauties of ancient China | ||
bridge (lit. and fig.) | ||
Tianqiao district of Ji'nan city 濟南市|济南市[Jǐnánshì], Shandong | ||
Cambridge |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 13.5992% of movies
1531st most common character in movies
1292nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+6865 |
Sources
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