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狡猾

jiǎo huá

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

狡猾 (jiǎo huá) means "crafty; cunning; sly". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 狡猾 means

1. crafty; cunning; sly

The characters in 狡猾

• 狡jiǎocrafty; cunning; sly
• 猾huásly

Example sentences

• 你真狡猾。
  Nǐ zhēn jiǎohuá.
  You're a clever one.
• 德国人很狡猾。
  Déguórén hěn jiǎohuá.
  The Germans are very crafty.
• 人们说，狐狸比其他动物要狡猾。
  Rénmen shuō, húli bǐ qítā dòngwù yào jiǎohuá.
  People say that the fox is more cunning than other animals.

Sounds the same

Read jiǎo huá, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 狡滑variant of 狡猾

Where 狡猾 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Candor, Clarity & Attitude (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 jiǎo huá correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.