巧
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opportunely; coincidentally; as it happens; skillful; timely
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 工 +2
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 巧
- Common rank
- #1,252
- Unicode
- U+5DE7
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
adroit · Heisig RSH #1024
I-beam + snare
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 巧
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 无巧不成书 | curious coincidence | |
| 来得早不如来得巧 | arriving early can't beat coming at the right time; perfect timing | |
| 白巧克力 | white chocolate | |
| 黑巧克力 | dark chocolate | |
| 花言巧语 | graceful words, flowery speech (idiom); elegant but insincere words; cheating wheedling; d… | |
| 巧家县 | Qiaojia, a county in Zhaotong City 昭通市[Zhao1 tong1 Shi4], Yunnan | |
| 心灵手巧 | capable; clever; dexterous | |
| 巧克力 | (loanword) chocolate; CL:塊|块[kuai4] | |
| 巧立名目 | to fabricate excuses (idiom); to concoct various items (e.g. to pad an expense account) | |
| 牛奶巧克力 | milk chocolate | |
| 巧言令色 | to be glib in one's speech and wear an ingratiating expression (idiom) | |
| 投机取巧 | to gain advantage by any means, fair or foul; to be opportunistic; to be full of tricks | |
| 熟能生巧 | with familiarity you learn the trick (idiom); practice makes perfect | |
| 不巧 | too bad; unfortunately; as luck would have it | |
| 巧人 | Homo habilis, extinct species of upright East African hominid (Tw) | |
| 小巧 | small and exquisite; delicate; fine (features); compact; nifty | |
| 巧家 | see 巧家縣|巧家县[Qiao3 jia1 Xian4] | |
| 白巧 | white chocolate (abbr. for 白巧克力[bai2 qiao3 ke4 li4]) | |
| 机巧 | cunning; dexterous; ingenious | |
| 花巧 | fancy |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 丂 — compare how they read.