chāojiǎo

destroy

Components
巢 sound component

  Sound component

cháo

  

nest

力 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

power

strength

Evolution

勦 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
勦 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
勦 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

chāo

destroy, exterminate, annihilate

() 

chāo

variant of [chāo]

() 

jiǎo

variant of [jiǎo]

Most common words with 勦
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

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2632nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+52E6

Shuowen

“勦,勞也。《春秋傳》曰:‘安用勦民。’从力,巢聲。”


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