乔 (qiáo): tall
乔 (qiáo) is a Chinese character meaning “tall.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 夭 (structural). It ranks #1479 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 乔 a person 夭 on stilts. Its radical form 丿 (slash) appears in many related characters such as 么 (me, suffix used in 什么 (what), 这么 (so), 怎么 (how) etc), 久 (jiǔ, (of a period of time) long), 乐 (lè, happy).
Definitions
- tall
Etymology & Origin
ideographicA person 夭 on stilts
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 乔治proper-noun | qiáo zhì | George (name) |
| 乔纳森proper-noun | qiáo nà sēn | Jonathan (name) |
| 乔丹proper-noun | qiáo dān | (name) Jordan |
| 乔希proper-noun | qiáo xī | Josh or Joshi (name) |
| 乔治亚proper-noun | qiáo zhì yà | (Tw) Georgia, US state |
| 乔迁verb | qiáo qiān | to move (to a superior place) |
| 圣乔治proper-noun | shèng qiáo zhì | St George |
| 乔治敦proper-noun | qiáo zhì dūn | Georgetown |
| 乔治城 | qiáo zhì chéng | Georgetown |
| 乔治·华盛顿 | qiáo zhì · huá shèng dùn | George Washington (1732-1799), first US president |
| 戈尔巴乔夫proper-noun | gē ěr bā qiáo fū | Gorbachev |
| 乔叟proper-noun | qiáo sǒu | Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集 |
| 乔迁之喜phrase | qiáo qiān zhī xǐ | congratulations on house-moving or promotion (idiom) |
| 乔装打扮 | qiáo zhuāng dǎ bàn | to dress up in disguise (idiom) |
| 迈克尔·乔丹 | mài kè ěr qiáo dān | Michael Jordan (1963–) US basketball player |
乔 appears in 41 compound words: 68 as the first character, 2 as the last, and 29 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 乔 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (4)
Showing 3 of 4 idioms containing 乔.
Example Sentences
乔字在日常生活中使用频率较低。
qiáo zì zài rì cháng shēng huó zhōng shǐ yòng pín lǜ jiào dī .
The character Qiao is used less frequently in everyday life.
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guài qí wù yǔ qiáo qí ruì bù dǎ guài gǎi dǎ huó shī ! 2 0 fēn zhōng dòu wán jù běn miǎo . . .
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玻纤布龙头日东纺飙涨15% 富乔、南亚等股价刷波段新高 还会继续涨?
bō qiàn bù lóng tóu rì dōng fǎng biāo zhǎng 1 5 fù qiáo , nán yà děng gǔ jià shuā bō duàn xīn gāo hái huì jì xù zhǎng ?
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开工惊魂!医美负责人中弹 枪手乔装落跑手法熟练
kāi gōng jīng hún ! yī měi fù zé rén zhōng dàn qiāng shǒu qiáo zhuāng luò pǎo shǒu fǎ shú liàn
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19岁少女带新欢“乔债”前男友祖孙三代溅血
1 9 suì shǎo nǚ dài xīn huān qiáo zhài qián nán yǒu zǔ sūn sān dài jiàn xiě
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乔治击中了他的腹部。
Qiáozhì jīzhòng le tā de fùbù.
George hit him in the stomach.
乔丹先生突然醒了。
Qiáodān xiānsheng tūrán xǐng le.
Mr Jordan woke up suddenly.
他们把失败归咎于乔治。
Tāmen bǎ shībài guījiù yú Qiáozhì.
They blamed the failure on George.
杰西死寂般沈默地盯着乔丹看。
Jiéxī sǐjì bān chén mò de dīng zhe Qiáodān kàn.
Jessie stared at Jordan in dead silence.
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