jiǎochāo

destroy

Components
巢 sound component

  Sound component

cháo

  

nest

刂 meaning component

  Meaning component

dāo

  

knife

knife

Definitions

 

jiǎo

destroy, exterminate, annihilate; to destroy; to extirpate

 

chāo

to plagiarize

() 

chāo

variant of [chāo]

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jiǎo

variant of [jiǎo]

Most common words with 剿
Freq.
Word
Meaning

围剿

to encircle and annihilate

to destroy

清剿

clean-up operation

剿灭

to eliminate (by armed force)

剿匪

to send armed forces to suppress

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts]awʔ

tsjewX

jiǎo

cut off


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2632nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+527F


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