狡
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crafty; cunning; sly
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 犬 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 狡
- Common rank
- #3,173
- Unicode
- U+72E1
Sound it out + + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
sly · Heisig RSH #2316
pack of wild dogs + 交 mingle
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 狡
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 狡兔死，走狗烹 | see 兔死狗烹[tu4 si3 gou3 peng1] | |
| 狡兔三窟 | lit. a crafty rabbit has three burrows; a sly individual has more than one plan to fall ba… | |
| 狡滑 | variant of 狡猾[jiao3 hua2] | |
| 奸狡 | devious; cunning | |
| 狡辩 | to deflect blame from oneself with a dishonest story; to make excuses | |
| 狡赖 | to deny (through sophism) | |
| 狡诈 | crafty; cunning; deceitful | |
| 狡猾 | crafty; cunning; sly | |
| 狡黠 | crafty; astute | |
| 狡狯 | (literary) crafty; cunning |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 交 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 交 sound part | to connect; to deliver, to exchange; to intersect; to mix | |
| 校 | school; military field officer | |
| 效 | result, effect; effective | |
| 咬 | to bite, to gnaw | |
| 较 | to compare; relatively; more | |
| 绞 | intertwined; to twist, to wring; to hang a criminal | |
| 郊 | suburbs, outskirts; wasteland, open space | |
| 饺 | stuffed dumplings | |
| 皎 | white; bright, brilliant; clear | |
| 鲛 | shark | |
| 跤 | to tumble, to fall; to wrestle | |
| 蛟 | a legendary scaled dragon | |
| 佼 | beautiful, handsome, good-looking | |
| 姣 | beautiful, handsome, pretty | |
| 洨 | a river in Hebei province | |
| 茭 | an edible aquatic grass; Zizania aquatica |