Dictionary › 缲
缲
qiāo
What 缲 means
- hem with invisible stitches
Other readings
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
- 橇sled; sleigh
- 硗stony soil
- 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
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