乔
tall
6 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,641 U+4E54
How 乔 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A person 夭 on stilts
How to remember it
pretend · Heisig RSH #441
crutches + 夭 die young — as a component also called: angel
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 乔 as their sound component
These characters all use 乔 (qiáo) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 乔 sound component | qiáo | tall, lofty; proud, stately |
| 桥 | qiáo | bridge; beam, crosspiece |
| 娇 | jiāo | seductive, lovable, tender; pampered; frail |
| 矫 | jiǎo | to correct, to rectify, to straighten out |
| 侨 | qiáo | emigrant; to sojourn |
| 挢 | jiǎo | to correct |
| 鞒 | qiáo | boot, mud shoe, snowshoe |
Words containing 乔
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 乔治城大学 | Qiáo zhì chéng Dà xué | Georgetown University in Washington D.C., famous as quality Jesuit university and for its … |
| 南乔治亚岛和南桑威奇 | Nán Qiáo zhì yà dǎo hé Nán Sāng wēi qí | South Georgia and The South Sandwich Islands |
| 布尔乔亚 | bù ěr qiáo yà | (loanword) bourgeois; bourgeoisie |
| 乔治·布尔 | Qiáo zhì · Bù ěr | George Boole (1815-1864), English mathematician, philosopher and logician, author of The L… |
| 乔治·索罗斯 | Qiáo zhì · Suǒ luó sī | George Soros or György Schwartz (1930-), Hungarian American financial speculator and milli… |
| 乔治一世 | Qiáo zhì Yī shì | George I of Great Brittain |
| 乔治·奥威尔 | Qiáo zhì · Ào wēi ěr | George Orwell (1903-1950), British novelist, author of Animal Farm 動物農場|动物农场 and 1984 |
| 普加乔夫 | Pǔ jiā qiáo fū | Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachov (1742-1775), Russian Cossack, leader of peasant rebellion 1773… |
| 乔巴山 | Qiáo bā shān | Choibalsan, city in Mongolia, capital of the eastern aimag (province) of Dornod; Khorloogi… |
| 乔布斯 | Qiáo bù sī | see 史蒂夫·喬布斯|史蒂夫·乔布斯[Shi3 di4 fu1 Qiao2 bu4 si1] |
| 落叶乔木 | luò yè qiáo mù | deciduous tree |
| 史蒂夫·乔布斯 | Shǐ dì fū Qiáo bù sī | Steve Jobs (1955–2011), US co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. |
| 乔治亚 | Qiáo zhì yà | (Tw) Georgia, US state; (Tw) Georgia (country) |
| 乔治城 | Qiáo zhì chéng | Georgetown; (the spelling 喬治敦|乔治敦 is more common) |
| 诺姆·乔姆斯基 | Nuò mǔ · Qiáo mǔ sī jī | Noam Chomsky (American linguist and political activist) |
| 诺维乔克 | Nuò wéi qiáo kè | Novichok (nerve agent) |
| 戈尔巴乔夫 | Gē ěr bā qiáo fū | Gorbachev; Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (1931–2022), last president of the Soviet Union 1… |
| 乔格里峰 | Qiáo gé lǐ Fēng | see 喬戈里峰|乔戈里峰[Qiao2 ge1 li3 Feng1] |
| 圣乔治 | Shèng qiáo zhì | St George |
| 乔治·华盛顿 | Qiáo zhì · Huá shèng dùn | George Washington (1732-1799), first US president |