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Mythic Mandarin

巧 (qiǎo): meaning and stroke order

巧 (qiǎo) means opportunely, coincidentally, as it happens, skillful, timely.

巧

Simplified
巧
Traditional
巧 (same form)
Pinyin
qiǎo

Stroke order of 巧

巧

  • qiǎo opportunely; coincidentally
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 巧

  1. qiǎo
    • opportunely
    • coincidentally
    • as it happens
    • skillful
    • timely

Radical and structure

巧
Radical 工 (Kangxi radical 48) · 5 strokes · 工 on the left, 丂 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

巧 in our stories

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  • 去年秋天，设计专业毕业的温然来这里当学徒。她手巧，学得快，可心里一直有个疑问：现在有各种胶水，能把裂缝补得几乎看不见，何必还要在瓷器上打钉子呢？

    qùnián qiūtiān shèjì zhuānyè bìyè de Wēn Rán lái zhèli dāng xuétú tā shǒu qiǎo xué de kuài kě xīnli yìzhí yǒu gè yíwèn xiànzài yǒu gèzhǒng jiāoshuǐ néng bǎ lièfèng bǔ de jīhū kàn bú jiàn hébì hái yào zài cíqì shàng dǎ dīngzi ne

    Last autumn Wen Ran, a design graduate, came here as an apprentice. She was deft and learned fast, but one question kept nagging her: glue nowadays can make a crack almost invisible, so why bother putting rivets into porcelain?

    From the story Mending the bowl HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 巧

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).