巧 Strokes Write it Listen 巧 qiǎo opportunely; coincidentally; as it happens HSK 3 5 strokes Radical 工 Sound + meaning 11 words Built from工meaninggōnglabor, work; laborer, worker丂soundkǎoobstruction of breath (qi); variant of 考 How it works工 hints at the meaning (work), and 丂 kǎo hints at the sound.