峭 — Chinese character
峭
qiào
steep, precipitous, rugged
- Pinyin
- qiào
- Radical
- 46 ⼭ (Mountain)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 山 肖
- Formation
- pictophonetic — mountain; meaning component 山; sound component 肖
- Japanese
- 峭 as a kanji
Common words with 峭
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 陡峭 | dǒu qiào | precipitous |
| 峭壁 | qiào bì | cliff; steep |
| 悬崖峭壁 (懸崖峭壁) | xuán yá qiào bì | (idiom) sheer cliffs and precipitous rock faces |
| 峻峭 | jùn qiào | high and steep |
| 料峭 | liào qiào | spring chill in the air; cold |
| 劲峭 (勁峭) | jìng qiào | (of wind) strong and bitterly cold |
English words written with 峭
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.