竅 — Chinese character
竅
qiào
hole, opening, aperture
- Pinyin
- qiào
- Radical
- 116 ⽳ (Cave)
- Strokes
- 18
- Components
- 穴 敫
- Formation
- pictophonetic — hole; meaning component 穴; sound component 敫
- Simplified
- 窍
- Japanese
- 竅 as a kanji
竅 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 12
- Zhuangzi The Identity of Contraries
- Zhuangzi How to Govern
- Zhuangzi The Secret of Life
- Zhuangzi Knowledge travels North
- Zhuangzi Kêng Sang Ch’u
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.