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qiào

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qiào Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
qiào | qiao4
English translation
outstanding; to elevate, to lift, to raise

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About qiào

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Number of strokes

18

Traditional form

qiào

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Non-morpheme / 非语素字 Fēi yǔsù zì

Learning hint

wings

Etymology of qiào

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

堯羽

Semantic compound

Phonetic compound

yáo

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and yáo represents the sound. Simplified form of qiào .

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Words with qiào

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
qiáo to stick up qiào
翘首 qiáo shǒu to raise one's head and look around (esp. at the state of the nation)翹首
连翘 lián qiáo Forsythia連翹
翘首以待 qiáo shǒu yǐ dài to anxiously await翹首以待
翘翘板 qiào qiào bǎn see-saw翹翹板
翘尾巴 qiào wěi ba to be cocky翹尾巴
翘辫子 qiào biàn zi (coll.) to die翹辮子
翘板 qiào bǎn a see-saw翹板
翘舌音 qiào shé yīn retroflex sound (e.g. in Mandarin zh, ch, sh, r)翹舌音
翘盼 qiáo pàn to long for翹盼
翘望 qiáo wàng to long for翹望
林家翘 Lín Jiā qiáo Lin Chia-Chiao (1916-2013), Chinese-American physicist, astronomer and applied mathematician林家翹
翘足 qiáo zú lit. on tiptoes翹足
翘足而待 qiáo zú ér dài to expect in a short time (idiom)翹足而待
翘企 qiáo qǐ to long for翹企

qiào Decomposition & Compounds

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