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悄悄

qiāo qiāo

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

悄悄 (qiāo qiāo) means "quiet(ly), making little or no noise". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 悄悄 means

1. quiet; making little or no noise
2. surreptitious; stealthy
3. anxious; worried
4. Taiwan pr. qiǎo qiǎo

The characters in 悄悄

• 悄qiāoused in 悄悄
• 悄qiāoused in 悄悄

Example sentences

• 她悄悄地去了。
  She went secretly.
• 我悄悄把信给了他。
  Wǒ qiāoqiāo bǎ xìn gěi le tā.
  I slipped the letter to him.
• 玛丽悄悄地关上了门。
  Mary closed the door quietly.
• 她跟你说了什么悄悄话？
  Tā gēn nǐ shuō le shénme qiāoqiaohuà?
  What did she whisper to you?
• 他悄悄地递给我一张纸条。
  Tā qiāoqiāo de dì gěi wǒ yī zhāng zhǐtiáo.
  He slipped me a note.
• 房间里静悄悄的，听不到一丝声音。
  Fángjiān lǐ jìngqiāoqiāo de, tīngbudào yī sī shēngyīn.
  Not a sound was heard in the room.

Words starting with 悄悄

• 悄悄话qiāo qiao huàwhisperings; private words; confidences
• 悄悄咪咪qiāo qiāo mī mī(dialect) quietly; stealthily

Words containing 悄悄

• 静悄悄jìng qiāo qiāoextremely quiet
• 蹑悄悄niè qiāo qiāosoftly; quietly

Where 悄悄 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Cleverness, Skill & Chess (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read qiāo qiāo correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.