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啁

zhāo

Character

What 啁 means

1. used in {啁哳|zhāo zhā}
2. Taiwan pr. zhōu

Other readings

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

• zhōutwittering of birds

Example sentences

• 老鸟啁啾，小鸟吱吱叫。
  Lǎoniǎo zhōujiū, xiǎoniǎo zhī zhī jiào.
  Old birds sing, young birds twitter.

Words starting with 啁

• 啁啾zhōu jiū(bird) twitter; chirp
• 啁哳zhāo zhā(literary; onomatopoeia) combined twittering and chirping of many birds

Sounds the same

Read zhāo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 朝morning
• 招to recruit; to provoke; to beckon
• 昭bright; clear; manifest
• 嘲used in 嘲哳
• 着a move in chess (Taiwan pr. zhuó); trick; tactic; (dialect) okay; all right
• 钊to encourage; to cut; to strain
• 皽(literary) dead skin cells on the surface of the skin; Taiwan pr. zhǎn
• 𬬿sickle
• 駋(horse)

Go deeper

• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zhāo correctly.
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