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啸

xiào

HSK 6 Character Traditional 嘯

What 啸 means

1. (of people) to whistle
2. (of birds and animals) to screech; to howl; to roar

Example sentences

• 海啸袭击日本。
  Tsunami hit Japan.
• 海啸的警报解除了。
  Hǎixiào de jǐngbào jiěchú le.
  The tsunami alert was cancelled.
• 海啸来了，密切注意啊。
  Hǎixiào lái le, mìqièzhùyì ā.
  A tsunami is coming, so please be on the alert.
• 海啸席卷稻田, 淹没了城镇。
  Hǎixiào xíjuǎn dàotián, yānmò le chéngzhèn.
  Tsunamis swept through rice fields and flooded the towns.
• 日本发生规模8.9的强烈地震, 引发强大海啸。
  Rìběn fāshēng guīmó bā diǎn jiǔ de qiángliè dìzhèn, yǐnfā qiángdà hǎixiào.
  An earthquake, 8.9 on the Richter scale, hits Japan and causes a massive tsunami.
• 菲律宾去年地震和海啸造成了超过6000人的死亡。
  Last year in the Philippines, earthquakes and tidal waves resulted in the deaths of more than 6,000 people.

Words starting with 啸

• 啸叫xiào jiàoto squeal; to screech

Words containing 啸

• 呼啸hū xiàoto whistle; to scream; to whiz
• 海啸hǎi xiàotsunami
• 呼啸而过hū xiào ér guòto whistle past; to hurtle past; to zip by
• 汪啸风Wāng Xiào fēngWang Xiaofeng (1944-), fourth governor of Hainan
• 奚啸伯Xī Xiào bóXi Xiaobo (1910-1977), Beijing opera star, one of the Four great beards 四大须生
• 紫啸鸫zǐ xiào dōng(bird species of China) blue whistling thrush (Myophonus caeruleus)
• 台湾紫啸鸫Tái wān zǐ xiào dōng(bird species of China) Taiwan whistling thrush (Myophonus insularis)

Characters built on 肃

These share the phonetic component 肃 (sù), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 萧xiāo(old) Chinese mugwort; (bound form) desolate; dreary
• 箫xiāoxiao, a vertical bamboo flute

Characters that look like 啸

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

• 绣xiùto embroider; embroidery
• 喽lóu(bound form) subordinates in a gang of bandits
• 喋diéused in 喋喋; used in 喋血
• 唠láoused in 唠叨
• 啜chuò(literary) to drink; to sip; to sob
• 唏xīsound of sobbing

Sounds the same

Read xiào, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 笑to laugh; to smile; to laugh at
• 校(bound form) school; college; (bound form; military) field officer
• 效to imitate (variant of 效
• 孝filial piety or obedience; mourning apparel
• 肖similar; resembling; to resemble
• 哮pant; roar; bark (of animals)
• 恔cheerful
• 薢woody climbing plant
• 歗old variant of 啸