竅 (qiào)
key (to a solution); aperture; opening
How 竅 is written
- Strokes
- 18
- Radical
- 穴 — cave
- Traditional
- 竅
- Simplified
- 窍
Components
- 穴 cave
- 白 white
- 方 square/raft
- ⺙ knock
Common words using 竅
- 竅門 qiàomén
- a trick; an ingenious method; know-how
- 訣竅 juéqiào
- secret; trick; knack
- 一竅不通 yīqiàobùtōng
- lit. doesn't (even) enter a single aperture (of one's head); I don't understand a word (idiom); it's all Greek to me
- 七竅 qīqiào
- the seven apertures of the human head: 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 nostrils, 1 mouth
- 七竅生煙 qīqiàoshēngyān
- lit. spouting smoke through the seven orifices (idiom); fig. to seethe with anger
- 開竅 kāiqiào
- to get it straight; to start to understand things properly; enlightenment dawns
- 心竅 xīnqiào
- lit. tunnel to the heart (traditional concept); clear thought; recognition
- 鬼迷心竅 guǐmíxīnqiào
- lit. devil charms heart tunnel (idiom); infatuated; possessed by a devil
竅 in a sentence
做菜是有訣竅的，火候控制很重要。
Zuòcài shì yǒu juéqiào de, huǒhòu kòngzhì hěn zhòngyào.
“There is a knack to cooking; controlling the heat is very important.”
How common is 竅?
竅 is the 3,014th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 99.2% of all running text.
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