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竅

Simplified: 窍

qiào ㄑㄧㄠˋ

    • hole
    • opening
    • orifice (of the human body)
    • key (to the solution of a problem)

      fig.

Other words read qiào

In the same tone

  • 殼 qiào shell
  • 鞘 qiào scabbard
  • 翹 qiào stick up
  • 撬 qiào lift
  • 俏 qiào good-looking

All 10 words read qiào

qiao with other tones

  • 瞧 qiáo look at
  • 橋 qiáo bridge
  • 敲 qiāo hit
  • 巧 qiǎo opportunely
  • 僑 qiáo emigrant

All 32 words read qiao in any tone

The stroke order and parts of 竅

    部首 radical
    穴
    笔画 strokes
    18, with 13 after the 部首
    结构 structure
    上下结构
    偏旁 parts
    穴敫
    形旁 meaning
    穴
    声旁 sound
    敫

    Words with 竅

    Starting with 竅

    Ending with 竅

    • 訣竅 juéqiào secret
    • 開竅 kāiqiào get it straight
    • 七竅 qīqiào seven apertures of the human head: 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 nostrils, 1 mouth
    • 心竅 xīnqiào mind
    • 鬼迷心竅 guǐmíxīnqiào be obsessed

    All 9 words ending with 竅

    Containing 竅

    • 一竅不通 yīqiàobùtōng lit. doesn't (even) enter a single aperture
    • 七竅生煙 qīqiàoshēngyān lit. spouting smoke through the seven orifices

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