Chinese symbol for “crafty”
狡猾
jiǎo huá
crafty; cunning; sly
The closest CC-CEDICT match for crafty is 狡猾 (jiǎo huá), defined as: crafty; cunning; sly.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “crafty”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 狡诈 (狡詐) | jiǎo zhà | crafty; cunning |
| 滑头 (滑頭) | huá tóu | crafty; slippery |
| 狡 | jiǎo | crafty; cunning |
| 刁钻 (刁鑽) | diāo zuān | crafty; tricky |
| 狡黠 | jiǎo xiá | crafty; astute |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 狡猾.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 狡诈 (狡詐) | jiǎo zhà | crafty; cunning |
| 狡辩 (狡辯) | jiǎo biàn | to deflect blame from oneself with a dishonest story; to make excuses |
| 狡黠 | jiǎo xiá | crafty; astute |
| 狡兔三窟 | jiǎo tù sān kū | lit. a crafty rabbit has three burrows; a sly individual has more than one plan to fall back on (idiom) |
| 狡狯 (狡獪) | jiǎo kuài | (literary) crafty; cunning |
| 奸猾 | jiān huá | treacherous; crafty |
| 老奸巨猾 | lǎo jiān jù huá | cunning; crafty |
| 油猾 | yóu huá | sly; slick |
See also: Japanese symbol for “crafty”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.