Kanji Detail for 巧 - "craft, skillful, deceptive"

巧

Jōyō Kanji

JLPT N1

Meaning
巧 means "craft, skillful, deceptive."
1. Craft - Skill; technique.
2. Skillful - Good at; adept.
3. Deceptive - Only decorating the surface; pretending.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

adroit; skilled; ingenuity

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

skillful, ingenious, clever

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

opportunely; coincidentally; as it happens; skillful; timely

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

skillful, ingenious, clever

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

Clever. Opposite of clumsy. Such as 大巧若拙. | Good; fine. Such as 巧笑. | Deceptive. Such as 巧言. | Coincidental. Such as 湊巧. | The seventh day of the seventh month has the Qiaoqiao festival story. Colloquially, the seventh month is called 巧月.
Onyomi

koh(コウ)
Kunyomi

taku.mu(たく-む)

takumi(たくみ)

umai(うま-い)
Strokes

5 strokes
Radical

工 (e・takumi・takumihen・ko)
Related Keywords
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