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啾

jiū

Character

What 啾 means

1. onomatopoeiawailing of child
2. chirp
3. kiss (Tw)

Example sentences

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

Words containing 啾

• 哈啾hā jiū(onomatopoeia) a-choo (sound of a sneeze) (Tw)
• 唧啾jī jiū(onomatopoeia) babble; twittering of birds
• 啁啾zhōu jiū(bird) twitter; chirp

Characters built on 秋

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

• 揪jiūto seize; to clutch; to grab firmly and pull
• 鳅qiūloach (family Cobitidae); used in 鲯鳅
• 楸qiūCatalpa; Mallotus japonicus

Characters that look like 啾

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

• 啦lā(onomatopoeia) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat
• 啪pā(onomatopoeia) bang; pop; pow
• 铢zhūtwenty-fourth part of a tael (2 or 3 grams)
• 嗷áoloud clamor; the sound of wailing
• 喙huìbeak; snout; mouth
• 煅duànto calcine; variant of 锻

Sounds the same

Read jiū, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 究after all; to investigate; to study carefully
• 纠to gather together; to investigate; to entangle
• 揪to seize; to clutch; to grab firmly and pull
• 鸠turtledove; (literary) to gather
• 阄lots (to be drawn); lot (in a game of chance)
• 揫to gather; to collect
• 摎to strangle; to inquire into
• 鬏bun (of hair)
• 樛to hang down
• 赳see 赳赳
• 丩old variant of 纠