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锹

qiāo

Character Traditional 鍬

What 锹 means

1. shovel
2. spade

Other readings

锹 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• qiāovariant of {锹|qiāo}

Words starting with 锹

• 锹甲qiāo jiǎstag beetle
• 锹形虫qiāo xíng chóngstag beetle (generic term for the beetles in the family of lucanidae)

Words containing 锹

• 铁锹tiě qiāospade; shovel
• 扁锹形虫biǎn qiāo xíng chónggiant stag beetle (Dorcus titanus)

Characters built on 秋

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

• 湫jiǎomarsh
• 愀qiǎochange countenance; worry

Characters that look like 锹

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

• 嘛máused in 唵嘛呢叭咪吽; (Taiwan; colloquial) what?
• 锻duànto forge; to discipline; wrought
• 锥zhuīcone; awl; to bore
• 蝙biānused in 蝙蝠
• 锭dìng(weaving) spindle; ingot; pressed cake of medicine etc
• 儆jǐngto warn; to admonish

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
• 橇sled; sleigh
• 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