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乔

qiáo

Character Traditional 喬

What 乔 means

1. tall

Other readings

乔 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Qiáosurname Qiao

Example sentences

• 乔治失恋了。
  Qiáozhì shīliàn le.
  George was broken-hearted.
• 乔治很健谈。
  Qiáozhì hěn jiàntán.
  George is quite talkative.
• 乔治很伤心。
  George was broken-hearted.
• 乔治比我大五岁。
  George is five years senior to me.
• 乔治一定会来的。
  George will definitely come.
• 乔纳斯失去控制。
  Jonas lost control.

Words starting with 乔

• 乔丹Qiáo dān(name) Jordan
• 乔木qiáo mùtree, esp. with recognizable trunk (as opposed to 灌木
• 乔装qiáo zhuāngto pretend; to feign; to disguise oneself
• 乔希Qiáo xīJosh or Joshi (name)
• 乔林qiáo línforest (esp. of tall trees); high forest
• 乔石Qiáo ShíQiao Shi (1924-2015), Chinese politician
• 乔红Qiáo HóngQiao Hong (1968–), retired Chinese female table tennis player
• 乔巴山Qiáo bā shānChoibalsan, city in Mongolia, capital of the eastern aimag (province) of Dornod…
• 乔治亚Qiáo zhì yà(Taiwan) Georgia, US state; (Taiwan) Georgia (country)
• 乔治城Qiáo zhì chéngGeorgetown; (the spelling 乔治敦 is more common)
• 乔治敦Qiáo zhì dūnGeorgetown
• 乔答摩Qiáo dā móGautama, surname of the Siddhartha, the historical Buddha
• 乔治城大学Qiáo zhì chéng Dà xuéGeorgetown University in Washington D.C., famous as quality Jesuit university and for its…
• 乔迁qiáo qiānto move (to a superior place); promotion
• 乔冠华Qiáo Guàn huáQiao Guanhua (1913-1973), PRC politician and diplomat
• 乔迁之喜qiáo qiān zhī xǐcongratulations on house-moving or promotion (idiom); Best wishes for your new home!
• 乔戈里峰Qiáo gē lǐ FēngK2, aka Mt. Chogir, the world's second highest peak, located in the Karakoram Range 喀喇昆仑山脉
• 乔装打扮qiáo zhuāng dǎ bànto dress up in disguise (idiom); to pretend for the purpose of deceit
• 乔叟Qiáo sǒuGeoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集
• 乔治一世Qiáo zhì Yī shìGeorge I of Great Brittain
• 乔治·布尔Qiáo zhì · Bù ěrGeorge Boole (1815-1864), English mathematician, philosopher and logician, author of The…
• 乔治·奥威尔Qiáo zhì · Ào wēi ěrGeorge Orwell (1903-1950), British novelist, author of Animal Farm 动物农场 and 1984
• 乔治·索罗斯Qiáo zhì · Suǒ luó sīGeorge Soros or György Schwartz (1930-), Hungarian American financial speculator and…
• 乔治·华盛顿Qiáo zhì · Huá shèng dùnGeorge Washington (1732-1799), first US president

Words containing 乔

• 戈尔巴乔夫Gē ěr bā qiáo fūGorbachev; Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (1931–2022), last president of the Soviet Union…
• 拿乔ná qiáopretentious; striking a pose
• 圣乔治Shèng qiáo zhìSt George
• 布尔乔亚bù ěr qiáo yà(loanword) bourgeois; bourgeoisie
• 普加乔夫Pǔ jiā qiáo fūYemelyan Ivanovich Pugachov (1742-1775), Russian Cossack, leader of peasant rebellion…
• 诺维乔克Nuò wéi qiáo kèNovichok (nerve agent)
• 落叶乔木luò yè qiáo mùdeciduous tree
• 杰弗里·乔叟Jié fú lǐ · Qiáo sǒuGeoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集
• 迈克尔·乔丹Mài kè ěr Qiáo dānMichael Jordan (1963–) US basketball player
• 南乔治亚岛和南桑威奇Nán Qiáo zhì yà dǎo hé Nán Sāng wēi qíSouth Georgia and The South Sandwich Islands
• 史蒂夫·乔布斯Shǐ dì fū Qiáo bù sīSteve Jobs (1955–2011), US co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc.
• 詹姆斯·乔伊斯Zhān mǔ sī · Qiáo yī sīJames Joyce (1882-1941), Irish modernist writer, author of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
• 诺姆·乔姆斯基Nuò mǔ · Qiáo mǔ sī jīNoam Chomsky (American linguist and political activist)

Characters that look like 乔

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 并bìngand; furthermore; also
• 存cúnto exist; to deposit; to store
• 异yìdifferent; other; hetero-
• 弃qìto abandon; to relinquish; to discard
• 弄nòngto do; to manage; to handle
• 夯hāngto ram; to tamp; a rammer; a tamper; excellent; exceptionally good

Sounds the same

Read qiáo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 桥bridge
• 瞧to look at; to see; to see (a doctor)
• 侨emigrant; to reside abroad
• 翘outstanding; to raise
• 樵firewood; gather wood
• 憔used in 憔悴
• 荞common mallow (Malva sinensis); variant of 荞
• 谯drum tower
• 硚used in place names; see 硚头
• 睄to look at (old variant of 瞧
• 趫nimble; walk on stilts
• 鞒the pommel and cantle of a saddle