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蜩

tiáo

Character

What 蜩 means

1. cicada

Characters built on 周

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

• 调tiáoto harmonize; to reconcile; to blend
• 雕diāoto carve; to engrave; shrewd
• 凋diāowithered
• 碉diāorock cave (archaic)
• 鲷diāoporgy; pagrus major

Sounds the same

Read tiáo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 条strip; item; article
• 调to harmonize; to reconcile; to blend
• 迢remote
• 笤broom
• 苕reed grass; Chinese trumpet vine (Campsis grandiflora) (old)
• 鲦Korean sharpbelly (fish, Hemiculter leucisculus); chub
• 髫(literary) hair hanging down in front (children's hairstyle)
• 岧lofty peak
• 趒to jump; to climb over; to leap
• 鞗reins of leather
• 龆shed the milk teeth; young
• 䩦variant of 鞗