譙 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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qiào, qiáo

tower

Components

言 Meaning component

yán

speech

焦 Sound component

jiāo

burned

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

qiào

tower; surname; ridicule; to blame

Qiáo

surname Qiao

qiáo

drum tower

Most common words with 譙

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	谯	ridicule
	谯城区	Qiaocheng district of Bozhou city 亳州市[Bózhōushì], Anhui
	谯城	Qiaocheng district of Bozhou city 亳州市[Bózhōushì], Anhui
	南谯区	Nanqiao district of Chuzhou city 滁州市[Chúzhōushì], Anhui

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5155th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	19
Simplified	谯
Unicode	U+8B59
Shuowen	“譙，嬈譊也。从言，焦聲。讀若嚼。誚，古文譙从肖。《周書》曰：‘亦未敢誚公。’”

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