华侨 華僑

华侨華僑 in English

huá qiáo noun
overseas Chinese / (in a restricted sense) Chinese emigrant who still retains Chinese nationality / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]

Measure word

  • (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested
  • wèi position; location; place; seat; classifier for people (honorific); classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2... attested
  • míng name; noun (part of speech); place (e.g. among winners); famous; classifier for people attested

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 华 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 华 Show the animation
Le caractère 華 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 華, the traditional character: 华 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

These are the forms of 僑, the traditional character: 侨 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

See 华侨 in the search results

Share this page