qiào
hole
Phonosemantic compound. 穴 represents the meaning and 敫 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 竅
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
hole | ||
secret | ||
a trick | ||
it's all Greek to me | ||
to get it straight |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ʰˤewk-s | khewH | qiào | hole, opening |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 5.1738% of movies
2548th most common character in movies
3020th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 18 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7AC5 |
Shuowen | “竅，空也。从穴，敫聲。” |
Sources
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