juēqiāo

to raise the feet

Evolution

蹻 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

𫏋 () 

juē

to raise the feet; to cross the legs; brave; sandals

() 

qiāo

variant of |[qiāo]; to raise one's foot; stilts

Most common words with 蹻
Freq.
Word
Meaning

蹊跷

odd

stilts

跷跷板

see-saw

高跷

stilts

踩高跷

to walk on stilts

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*k(r)awʔ

kjewX

jué

martial

*[g](r)awk

gjak

qiāo

lifting the feet high


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+8E7B

Shuowen

“蹻,舉足行高也。从足,喬聲。《詩》曰:‘小子蹻蹻。’”


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