qiào
hole
Phonosemantic compound. 穴 represents the meaning and 巧 represents the sound. Simplified form of 竅.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 窍
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
hole | ||
secret | ||
a trick | ||
it's all Greek to me | ||
to get it straight |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 5.1738% of movies
2548th most common character in movies
3020th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+7A8D |
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