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晓

xiǎo

HSK 6 Character Traditional 曉

What 晓 means

1. dawn
2. daybreak
3. to know
4. to let sb know
5. to make explicit

Example sentences

• 我不晓得。
  Wǒ bù xiǎode.
  I do not know.
• 刘晓波是中国人。
  Liu Xiaobo is Chinese.
• 汤姆已经知晓了吗？
  Does Tom already know?
• 您无需通晓多国语言。
  Nín wúxū tōngxiǎo duōguó yǔyán.
  It doesn't require you to be a polyglot.
• 他晓得你做了什么吗？
  Does he know what you did?
• 真相总算在我们面前揭晓了。
  At last, the truth was revealed to us.

Words starting with 晓

• 晓得xiǎo deto know
• 晓示xiǎo shìto tell; to notify
• 晓以大义xiǎo yǐ dà yì(idiom) to persuade by appealing to principle; to reason with sb on moral grounds
• 晓喻xiǎo yùto inform; to convince
• 晓谕xiǎo yùvariant of 晓喻

Words containing 晓

• 家喻户晓jiā yù hù xiǎounderstood by everyone (idiom); well known; a household name
• 知晓zhī xiǎoto know; to understand
• 揭晓jiē xiǎoto announce publicly; to publish; to make known
• 赫鲁晓夫Hè lǔ xiǎo fuNikita Khrushchev (1894–1971), secretary-general of Soviet Communist Party 1953–1964
• 通晓tōng xiǎoproficient (in sth); to understand sth through and through
• 刘晓波Liú Xiǎo bōLiu Xiaobo (1955-2017), Beijing writer and human rights activist, organizer of petition…
• 天晓得tiān xiǎo deHeaven knows!
• 拂晓fú xiǎodaybreak; approach of dawn
• 破晓pò xiǎodaybreak; dawn
• 分晓fēn xiǎothe result (becomes apparent); now one understands
• 报晓bào xiǎoto herald the break of day
• 薄晓bó xiǎoat dawn
• 已见分晓yǐ jiàn fēn xiǎothe result becomes apparent; (after) the dust has settled
• 户告人晓hù gào rén xiǎoto make known to every household (idiom); to disseminate widely…
• 无人不晓wú rén bù xiǎoknown to everyone
• 白晓燕Bái Xiǎo yànPai Hsiao-yen (daughter of Pai Ping-ping)

Characters built on 尧

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

• 浇jiāoto pour liquid; to irrigate (using waterwheel); to water
• 翘qiáooutstanding; to raise
• 跷qiāoto raise one's foot; to stand on tiptoe; stilts
• 侥jiǎoby mere luck
• 骁xiāogood horse; valiant
• 硗qiāostony soil
• 哓xiāoa cry of alarm; querulous

Characters that look like 晓

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

• 捷jiévictory; triumph; quick
• 绕ràoto wind; to coil (thread); to rotate around
• 饶ráorich; abundant; exuberant
• 挠náoto scratch; to thwart; to yield
• 琉liúprecious stone
• 骁xiāogood horse; valiant

Sounds the same

Read xiǎo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 小small; tiny; few
• 筱dwarf bamboo; thin bamboo
• 篠dwarf bamboo
• 𫍲small