僑 (qiáo)

emigrant/reside abroad

How 僑 is written

Strokes
14
Radical
亻 — human
Traditional
僑
Simplified
侨

Components

Common words using 僑

華僑 huáqiáo
overseas Chinese; (in a restricted sense) Chinese emigrant who still retains Chinese nationality; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
僑胞 qiáobāo
countryman living abroad
僑民 qiáomín
expatriates
僑鄉 qiáoxiāng
home town of overseas Chinese

僑 in a sentence

他是剛回國的華僑。

Tā shì gāng huíguó de huáqiáo.

“He is an overseas Chinese who just returned to the country.”

How common is 僑?

僑 is the 2,335th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 98.1% of all running text.

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