 | 巧 | ||
| skillful, ingenious, clever | |||
| Radical | 工 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 2 | Total Strokes | 5 |
| Mandarin reading |
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Cantonese reading | haau2 kiu2 |
| Japanese on reading | kou | Japanese kun reading | takumi satoi |
| Korean reading | kyo | Vietnamese reading | xảo |
| 巧 | [ ] opportunely, coincidentally, as it happens, skillful, timely |
| 巧了 | [ le ] what a coincidence! |
| 巧人 | [ rén ] Homo habilis, extinct species of upright East African hominid (Tw) |
| 巧克力 | [ kè lì ] chocolate (loanword), CL:塊|块[kuai4] |
| 巧克力脆片 | [ kè lì cuì piàn ] chocolate chip |
| 巧匠 | [ jiàng ] skilled workman |
| 巧合 | [ hé ] coincidence, coincidental, to coincide |
| 巧固球 | [ gù qiú ] tchoukball (loanword) |
| 巧妙 | [ ] ingenious, clever, ingenuity, artifice |
| 巧婦 | [ fù ] clever wife, ingenious housewife, Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) |
| 巧婦難為無米之炊 | [ fù nán weí wú mǐ zhī chuī ] The cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice (idiom); You won't get anywhere without equipment. |
| 巧家 | [ jiā ] Qiaojia county in Zhaotong 昭通[Zhao1 tong1], Yunnan |
| 巧家縣 | [ jiā xiàn ] Qiaojia county in Zhaotong 昭通[Zhao1 tong1], Yunnan |
| 巧幹 | [ gàn ] to work resourcefully, to apply intelligence |
| 巧思 | [ sī ] innovative thinking, ingenuity |
| 巧手 | [ shoǔ ] skillful hands, dexterous, a dab hand |
| 巧立名目 | [ lì míng mù ] to fabricate excuses (idiom), to concoct various items (e.g. to pad an expense account) |
| 巧舌如簧 | [ shé rú huáng ] lit. to have a tongue like a reed (idiom), fig. to have a glib tongue |
| 巧言令色 | [ yán lìng sè ] to be glib in one's speech and wear an ingratiating expression (idiom) |
| 巧計 | [ jì ] maneuver, scheme |
| 巧詐 | [ zhà ] deceitful, crafty, artful |
| 巧詐不如拙誠 | [ zhà bù rú zhuō chéng ] the unvarnished truth is better than a cunning ruse (idiom), honesty is the best policy |
| 巧辯 | [ biàn ] to argue skillfully or plausibly, rhetoric |
| ⇒ 七巧板 | [ qī bǎn ] tangram (traditional Chinese block puzzle) |
| ⇒ 不巧 | [ bù ] too bad, unfortunately, as luck would have it |
| ⇒ 不湊巧 | [ bù coù ] unluckily |
| ⇒ 乖巧 | [ ] clever (child), smart, lovable, cute |
| ⇒ 來得早不如來得巧 | [ laí de zaǒ bù rú laí de ] arriving early can't beat coming at the right time, perfect timing |
| ⇒ 偏巧 | [ piān ] by coincidence, it so happened that, fortunately, against expectation |
| ⇒ 剛巧 | [ gāng ] by chance, by coincidence, by good luck |
| ⇒ 取巧 | [ qǔ ] quick fix, opportune short cut (around a difficulty), cheap trick (to get what one wants), to pull a fast one |
| ⇒ 可巧 | [ kě ] by happy coincidence |
| ⇒ 小巧 | [ ] small and exquisite, delicate, fine (features), compact, nifty |
| ⇒ 小巧玲瓏 | [ líng lóng ] dainty and delicate, exquisite |
| ⇒ 弄巧反拙 | [ nòng fǎn zhuō ] see 弄巧成拙[nong4 qiao3 cheng2 zhuo1] |
| ⇒ 弄巧成拙 | [ nòng chéng zhuō ] to overreach oneself, to try to be clever and end up with egg on one's face |
| ⇒ 心靈手巧 | [ xīn líng shoǔ ] capable, clever, dexterous |
| ⇒ 恰巧 | [ qià ] fortunately, unexpectedly, by coincidence |
| ⇒ 慢工出巧匠 | [ màn gōng chū jiàng ] patient work makes a skilled craftsman |
| ⇒ 手巧 | [ shoǔ ] to be skillful with one's hands, to be manually adroit |
| ⇒ 技巧 | [ jì ] skill, technique |
| ⇒ 投機取巧 | [ toú jī qǔ ] to seize every opportunity, to be full of tricks |
| ⇒ 機巧 | [ jī ] cunning, dexterous, ingenious |
| ⇒ 正巧 | [ zhèng ] just by chance, to happen to (just at the right time), opportune |
| ⇒ 湊巧 | [ coù ] fortuitously, luckily, as chance has it |
| ⇒ 無巧不成書 | [ wú bù chéng shū ] curious coincidence |
| ⇒ 熟能生巧 | [ shú néng shēng ] with familiarity you learn the trick (idiom); practice makes perfect |
| ⇒ 牙機巧制 | [ yá jī zhì ] ingenious gear machine, elaborate contraption |
| ⇒ 碰巧 | [ pèng ] by chance, by coincidence, to happen to |
| ⇒ 精巧 | [ jīng ] elaborate |
| ⇒ 繆巧 | [ miù ] plan, scheme, intelligent, quick-witted |
| ⇒ 纖巧 | [ xiān ] delicate, dainty |
| ⇒ 花巧 | [ huā ] fancy |
| ⇒ 花言巧語 | [ huā yán yǔ ] graceful words, flowery speech (idiom); elegant but insincere words, cheating wheedling, dishonest rhetoric |
| ⇒ 討巧 | [ taǒ ] to act cleverly to get what one desires, to get the best at least expense |
| ⇒ 語音技巧 | [ yǔ yīn jì ] phonological skill |
| ⇒ 輕巧 | [ qīng ] dexterous, deft, easy, light and easy to use, nimble, agile, lithe, graceful |
| ⇒ 靈巧 | [ líng ] deft, nimble, ingenious |