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橇

qiāo

Character

What 橇 means

1. sled
2. sleigh

Example sentences

• 我的雪橇是白。
  Wǒ de xuěqiāo shì bái.
  My sleigh is white.
• 我的雪橇是白色的。
  My sleigh is white.
• 我们这里没有任何乘橇的人。
  Wǒmen zhèlǐ méiyǒu rènhé chéng qiāo de rén.
  We don't have any sledders here.
• 夜晚大雪纷飞。第二天早上，祖母和孙子一起坐着雪橇上街。在放学后的下午，公园里的雪仗开始了。
  Yèwǎn Dàxuě fēnfēi. dì'èrtiān zǎoshang, zǔmǔ hé sūnzi yīqǐ zuò zhe xuěqiāo shàngjiē. zài fàngxuéhòu de xiàwǔ, gōngyuán lǐ de xuězhàng kāishǐ le.
  Plenty of snow had fallen overnight. In the streets the next morning, grandmothers appeared with their grandchildren on sledges, and in the park that afternoon, after school, snowball fights broke out.

Words containing 橇

• 雪橇xuě qiāosled; sledge; sleigh
• 冰橇bīng qiāosled; sledge; sleigh
• 雪橇犬xuě qiāo quǎnsled dog
• 阿拉斯加雪橇犬Ā lā sī jiā xuě qiāo quǎnAlaskan malamute

Characters that look like 橇

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

• 橡xiàngoak; Quercus serrata
• 撬qiàoto lift; to pry open; to lever open
• 撮cuōto pick up (a powder etc) with the fingertips; to scoop up; to collect together
• 辘lùused in 辘辘; used in 轱辘; used in 辘轳
• 糠kānghusk; (of a radish etc) spongy (and therefore unappetising)
• 擞sǒuused in 抖擞

Sounds the same

Read qiāo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 敲to hit; to strike; to tap
• 悄used in 悄悄
• 雀a freckle; lentigo
• 跷to raise one's foot; to stand on tiptoe; stilts
• 锹shovel; spade
• 硗stony soil
• 缲hem with invisible stitches
• 墝stony soil
• 骹shank (the leg from knee to ankle); leg (from hip to ankle); (horse anatomy) pastern
• 劁to neuter livestock
• 橾old variant of 锹