鞘 — Chinese character
鞘
qiào
scabbard, sheath
- Pinyin
- qiào
- Radical
- 177 ⾰ (Leather)
- Strokes
- 16
- Components
- 革 肖
- Formation
- pictophonetic — leather; meaning component 革; sound component 肖
- Japanese
- 鞘 as a kanji
Common words with 鞘
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 出鞘 | chū qiào | (of a sword etc) to unsheath |
| 刀鞘 | dāo qiào | scabbard |
| 鞘翅目 | qiào chì mù | Coleoptera (insect order including beetles) |
| 海鞘 | hǎi qiào | Ascidiacea; sea squirt |
| 叶鞘 (葉鞘) | yè qiào | (botany) leaf sheath |
| 髓鞘 | suǐ qiào | myelin sheath (membrane surrounding axon of nerve cell) |
| 腱鞘炎 | jiàn qiào yán | tenosynovitis (medicine) |
| 腱鞘 | jiàn qiào | (anatomy) tendon sheath |
| 鞘翅 | qiào chì | elytrum (hardened forewing of Coleoptera beetle, encasing the flight wing) |
| 胚芽鞘 | pēi yá qiào | coleoptile, protective sheath covering an emerging shoot (botany) |
| 卵鞘 | luǎn qiào | (invertebrate zoology) ootheca |
| 鞘脂 | qiào zhī | sphingolipid |
English words written with 鞘
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.