剿 — Chinese character
剿
jiǎo
to annihilate, to destroy, to exterminate
- Pinyin
- jiǎo
- Radical
- 18 ⼑ (Knife)
- Strokes
- 13
- Components
- 巢 刂
- Formation
- pictophonetic — knife; meaning component 刂; sound component 巢
- Japanese
- 剿 as a kanji
Common words with 剿
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 围剿 (圍剿) | wéi jiǎo | to encircle and subdue (an armed group or insurgents); (fig.) to gang up on; to attack or criticize collectively |
| 清剿 | qīng jiǎo | to suppress (insurgents); clean-up operation |
| 剿匪 | jiǎo fěi | to send armed forces to suppress |
| 剿灭 (剿滅) | jiǎo miè | to eliminate (by armed force) |
| 追剿 | zhuī jiǎo | to pursue and eliminate; to suppress |
| 剿袭 (剿襲) | chāo xí | variant of 抄袭 (chāo xí) |
| 剿说 (剿說) | chāo shuō | to plagiarize |
| 包剿 | bāo jiǎo | to surround and annihilate (bandits) |
| 反围剿 (反圍剿) | fǎn wéi jiǎo | communist attack against the Guomindang's encircle and annihilate campaign |
| 征剿 (征勦) | zhēng jiǎo | to mount a punitive expedition against bandits |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.