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翘 (qiáo)
Meaning:
1. Raise, lift, up.
2. Outstanding.
1. Raise, lift, up: raise one's head; gaze upward; eager expectation; raise one's foot to lead.
2. Outstanding: outstanding talent (high ability); excellent (referring to distinguished talents).
翘 (qiáo)
Category: noun
Basic Meaning: Long feathers on a bird's tail.
Character Formation: Semantics and sound; combines 羽 (feather) and 尧 (sound of the character). 羽 refers to bird feathers.
1. Same as the basic meaning (long feather).
Reference:
1. "Shuowen Jiezi": "翘, tail long hair."
2. Pan Yue's "Shooting Pheasants": "The spotted tail lifts."
3. "Songs of Chuci": "The green feather hangs, with twisted jewels."
Example: Such as: green feather (tools made from the tail feathers of a kingfisher); beautiful tail feathers.
2. Bird's tail.
Reference:
1. Liu Xiang's "Nine Lamentations": "Waving feathers, rushing wind and rain, endless swimming."
3. Broadly refers to the tail of an animal.
翘 (qiáo)
Category: verb
1. Raise.
Reference:
1. Cao Zhi's "Miscellaneous Poems": "Longing for a distant person."
2. "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio": "Raising up and priding itself on singing."
Example: Such as: longing (suspense; yearning); muse (thinking about you anxiously); lifting high (a light-jumping manner); lifting the city gate (to lift the gate blocking the city, indicating great strength, recognized as a skill in Tang's martial exam for weightlifting).
2. Arouse.
Example: Such as: diligent arousal (hardworking).
3. Expose.
Reference:
1. "Book of Rites": "Rude and exposing." Note: "To raise."
Example: Such as: exposing others' faults.
翘 (qiáo)
Category: adjective
1. Outstanding (talent).
Example: Such as: distinguished person (someone with exceptional talent); extraordinary (outstanding and exceptional).
2. High; dangerous.
Reference:
1. "Book of Songs": "Uplifted and crossed firewood."
2. "Book of Songs": "My home is lofty."
3. See also qià.
翘 (qiáo)
1. One end is raised upwards.
1. One end is raised upwards: raise a tail; raising a braid (dying).
翘 (qiáo)
Category: verb
1. (口) One end is raised up (stick up; turn upwards).
2. See also qiáo.
翘 (qiáo)
Category: verb
1. (口) One end is raised upwards.
Reference:
1. Zhuangzi's "Horse Hoof": "Raising up one foot to land."
2. "Huainanzi": "Raising the tail and running."
3. Lu Xun's "Buried": "Men's beards often curl upwards."
Example: Such as: curling up a mustache; when he stepped on this board, it lifted up.
2. See also qiáo.