拼音
- qiáo (second tone, rising)
a bridge
字形拆解
Ideographic description
⿰木乔The sequence reads left to right and describes how the parts are arranged.
- 木meaning partno entry yetWood: the first bridges were timber laid across a stream.
- 乔sound partno entry yet乔 qiáo for the sound; on its own it means tall, and a bridge does stand high above the water.
Mnemonic
Wood 木 with 乔 "tall" for the sound: timber raised over water. The phonetic carries a fair share of the sense here, which makes the character easy to hold. 过桥 to cross a bridge, 桥梁 a bridge in the engineering sense and, figuratively, a link between two sides.
A memory aid written by HSK Guide editors. It is not an etymology and does not describe the historical origin of the character.
含“桥”的词
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