- Qiaoa family name; also refers to the famous Two Qiao sisters of the Three Kingdoms period
- prefect(historical) the top administrator of a commandery or prefecture during the imperial era; since the Song dynasty, often used as an informal name for a 知府
- to mismatch a coupleTo mistakenly or arbitrarily pair people together as a romantic couple; by extension, to misallocate personnel or force unrelated things together.
- 谱 譜 nounregister(bound form) a list, table, or chart that records related things in a systematic way, such as a menu, manual, or guide