窍 — Chinese character
窍
qiào
hole, opening, aperture
- Pinyin
- qiào
- Radical
- 116 ⽳ (Cave)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 穴 巧
- Formation
- pictophonetic — hole; meaning component 穴; sound component 巧
- Traditional
- 竅
Common words with 窍
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 诀窍 (訣竅) | jué qiào | secret; trick |
| 窍门 (竅門) | qiào mén | a trick; an ingenious method |
| 开窍 (開竅) | kāi qiào | to get it straight; to start to understand things properly |
| 一窍不通 (一竅不通) | yī qiào bù tōng | lit. doesn't (even) enter a single aperture (of one's head); I don't understand a word (idiom) |
| 心窍 (心竅) | xīn qiào | the mind; capacity for clear thinking |
| 鬼迷心窍 (鬼迷心竅) | guǐ mí xīn qiào | to be obsessed; to be possessed |
| 七窍生烟 (七竅生煙) | qī qiào shēng yān | lit. spouting smoke through the seven orifices (idiom); fig. to seethe with anger |
| 财迷心窍 (財迷心竅) | cái mí xīn qiào | mad about money (idiom) |
| 七窍 (七竅) | qī qiào | the seven apertures of the human head: 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 nostrils, 1 mouth |
| 九窍 (九竅) | jiǔ qiào | nine orifices of the human body (eyes, nostrils, ears, mouth, urethra, anus) |
| 不开窍 (不開竅) | bù kāi qiào | unable to understand; can't get the point |
| 窍门儿 (竅門兒) | qiào mén r | erhua form of 窍门 (qiào mén) |
English words written with 窍
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.