qiāo

raise one's foot

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
足 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

foot

堯 sound component

  Sound component

yáo

  

legendary ancient emperor-sage

Definitions

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qiāo

raise one's foot; to raise one's foot; to stand on tiptoe; stilts

Most common words with 蹺
Freq.
Word
Meaning

蹊跷

odd

stilts

跷跷板

see-saw

高跷

stilts

踩高跷

to walk on stilts

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.2105% of movies

2837th most common character in movies

3720th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

Unicode

U+8E7A


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