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窍

qiào

HSK 6 Character Traditional 竅

What 窍 means

1. hole
2. opening
3. orifice (of the human body)
4. (fig.) key (to the solution of a problem)

Example sentences

• 我对此一窍不通。
  Wǒ duì cǐ yīqiàobùtōng.
  It's all Greek to me.
• 我把亚当的手表弄坏了，气得他七窍生烟。
  Wǒ bǎ Yàdāng de shǒubiǎo nònghuài le, qì de tā qīqiàoshēngyān.
  Adam was furious with me when I broke his watch.
• 在处理资料上，他很有天赋。但编写代码的话，只能说一窍不通。
  With data, he's a genius. But with code -- complete numbskull.
• 罗素是一个极出色的哲学家，可是他对日常生活中的事务却是一窍不通。
  Luósù shì yī gè jí chūsè de zhéxuéjiā, kěshì tā duì Rì cháng shēnghuó zhōng de shìwù quèshì yīqiàobùtōng.
  Russell was a brilliant philosopher, but even the simplest practical task was quite beyond him.

Words starting with 窍

• 窍门qiào ména trick; an ingenious method; know-how
• 窍门儿qiào mén rerhua form of 窍门

Words containing 窍

• 诀窍jué qiàosecret; trick; knack
• 一窍不通yī qiào bù tōnglit. doesn't (even) enter a single aperture (of one's head)…
• 开窍kāi qiàoto get it straight; to start to understand things properly; enlightenment dawns
• 心窍xīn qiàothe mind; capacity for clear thinking
• 不开窍bù kāi qiàounable to understand; can't get the point
• 财迷心窍cái mí xīn qiàomad about money (idiom)
• 灵魂出窍líng hún chū qiàoout-of-body experience
• 鬼迷心窍guǐ mí xīn qiàoto be obsessed; to be possessed
• 七窍qī qiàothe seven apertures of the human head: 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 nostrils, 1 mouth
• 九窍jiǔ qiàonine orifices of the human body (eyes, nostrils, ears, mouth, urethra, anus)
• 七窍生烟qī qiào shēng yānlit. spouting smoke through the seven orifices (idiom); fig. to seethe with anger

Characters that look like 窍

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

• 您nínyou (courteous, as opposed to informal 你
• 商shāngcommerce; merchant; dealer
• 虑lǜto think over; to consider; anxiety
• 荫yīn(bound form) shade (of a tree)
• 焉yānwhere; how
• 凋diāowithered

Sounds the same

Read qiào, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 峭high and steep; precipitous; severe or stern
• 俏good-looking; charming; (of goods) in great demand
• 撬to lift; to pry open; to lever open
• 壳(bound form) shell; Taiwan pr. ké
• 翘to stick up; to rise on one end; to tilt
• 鞘scabbard; sheath
• 诮ridicule; to blame
• 撽to beat with a stick; to hit from the side
• 谯ridicule; to blame