miù​qiǎo

quick-witted

móu, miù, miào wind around Simplified

Components

Meaning component
silk

thread

Sound component
liù, lù to sweep away, to remove

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

qiǎo skillful

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
gōng work
Sound component
kǎo, qiǎo, yú axe handle

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Jin 266-420 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkhaewX[kʰ]ˤruʔ artful

說文解字

《說文》:“巧,技也。从工,丂聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica

wind around Traditional

Components

Meaning component
silk

thread

Sound component
liù, lù to sweep away, to remove

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangmlɯw
mɡrɯw
mrɯws
mlɯwɢ
Unicodemiəu

說文解字

枲之十絜也。一曰綢繆。从糸翏聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica