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巧

巧

Translingual

Han character

巧 (radical 48 工+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 一一女尸 (MMVS), four-corner 11127, composition ⿰工丂)

  1. skillful, ingenious, clever
  • Antonym : 拙

References

  • KangXi: page 325, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8721
  • Dae Jaweon: page 628, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 412, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5DE7

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 巧

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (丂) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
丂 *kʰluːʔ
攷 *kʰluːʔ
考 *kʰluːʔ
烤 *kʰluːʔ
拷 *kʰluːʔ
栲 *kʰluːʔ
洘 *kʰluːʔ
銬 *kʰluːs
巧 *kʰruːʔ, *kʰruːs
朽 *qʰluʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 巧 巧
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 溪 (29) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 肴 (90) 肴 (90)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) II II
Fanqie 苦絞切 苦敎切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰˠauX/ /kʰˠauH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰᵚauX/ /kʰᵚauH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰauX/ /kʰauH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰaɨwX/ /kʰaɨwH/
Li
Rong		 /kʰauX/ /kʰauH/
Wang
Li		 /kʰauX/ /kʰauH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰauX/ /kʰauH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 qiǎo qiào
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 巧
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 qiǎo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khæwX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[kʰ]ˤruʔ/
English artful

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 巧 巧
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 7410 7411
Phonetic
component		 丂 丂
Rime
group		 幽 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 巧 敲
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰruːʔ/ /*kʰruːs/

Definitions

巧

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Compounds

See also

Japanese

Kanji

巧

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. adroit

Readings

Proper noun

巧 ‎(hiragana たくみ, romaji Takumi)

  1. A male given name

巧 ‎(hiragana こう, romaji Kō, historical hiragana かう)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

巧 • ‎(gyo) (hangeul 교, revised gyo, McCune-Reischauer kyo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

巧 (xảo, nghiệp)

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