HSK Guide

qiáoa bridge

qiáo (second tone, rising)

繁体:

a bridge

10 画部首 词频 #583

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.

  • meaning partno entry yetWood: the first bridges were timber laid across a stream.
  • 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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