撬 (qiào): to lift, to pry open, to lever open
撬 (qiào) is a Chinese character meaning “to lift.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 扌 (semantic) and 毳 (phonetic). It ranks #2943 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 撬 hand. Its radical form 扌 (hand) appears in many related characters such as 手 (shǒu, hand), 打 (dǎ, hit, make), 找 (zhǎo, to look for).
Definitions
- to lift
- to pry open
- to lever open
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 撬棍noun | qiào gùn | crowbar |
| 撬杠noun | qiào gàng | crowbar |
| 撬棒noun | qiào bàng | crowbar |
| 撬开verb | qiào kāi | to pry open |
| 撬动verb | qiào dòng | to shift sth with a crowbar etc |
| 撬门verb | qiào mén | to break in |
| 铁撬noun | tiě qiào | crowbar |
| 撬锁verb | qiào suǒ | to pick a lock |
| 撬窃 | qiào qiè | burglary |
撬 appears in 9 compound words: 89 as the first character, 11 as the last, and 0 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 撬 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
撬照镜子，整理一下自己的仪容。
qiào zhào jìng zǐ , zhěng lǐ yī xià zì jǐ de yí róng .
Adjust your appearance in the mirror.
石头分层绽开，像一本被时光慢慢撬开封页、层层松脱的石质古书。
shí tóu fēn céng zhàn kāi , xiàng yī běn bèi shí guāng màn màn qiào kāi fēng xié , céng céng sōng tuō de shí zhì gǔ shū .
The rock split open in layers, like an ancient stone book whose pages had been slowly pried open by the passage of time, each layer peeling away one by one.
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泉州小木偶,撬动观演大市场
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他们试图用一根铁棒撬开锁。
Tāmen shìtú yòng yī gēn tiěbàng qiàokāi suǒ.
They tried to pry the lock open with an iron bar.
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