qiào, qiáo
turn up
Phonosemantic compound. 羽 represents the meaning and 尧 represents the sound. Simplified form of 翹.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 翘
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to stick up | ||
to raise one's head and look around (esp. at the state of the nation) | ||
Forsythia | ||
to anxiously await | ||
see-saw |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 5.9106% of movies
2307th most common character in movies
2992nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+7FD8 |
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