Chinese Character Wiki
焦

jiāo

burned

Original meaning: 

wren

Originally a pictograph of a wren. Based on the original meaning "wren", now written as 鷦. Later used as a phonetic loan for "burn", after which the fire (灬) component was added.

Components
隹 meaning component

隹  Meaning component

zhuī

  

bird

灬 meaning component

灬  Meaning component

biāo, huǒ

  

fire

灬 is a component form of 火.

Evolution

焦 Bronze script Warring States (475-221 BC)

Bronze script

Warring States (475-221 BC)
焦 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
焦 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
焦 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

焦  

jiāo

burned, scorched; anxious, vexed; burnt; scorched; charred; worried; anxious; coke; abbr. for 焦耳[jiāo​'ěr], joule

焦  

Jiāo

surname Jiao

Most common words with 焦
Freq.
Word
Meaning

焦点

focus

焦

burnt

焦虑

anxious

焦急

anxiety

聚焦

to focus

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

樵

Sound component in 15 characters (4 verified)

瞧 蕉 鷦 鹪 礁 樵 憔 醮 譙 谯 僬 劁 噍 蟭 膲

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*S.tew

tsjew

jiāo

burn, scorch

*S.tew

tsjew

jiāo

Jiao (place name)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 16.7387% of movies

1701st most common character in movies

1554th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+7126

Shuowen

“，火所傷也。从火，雥聲。，或省。”


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