趙

趙 (Kangxi radical 156, 走+7, 14 strokes, cangjie input 土人火月 (GOFB), four-corner 4980₂, composition ⿺走肖)

• 𡁻 𠠄

• 赵 (Simplified Chinese)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1217, character 50
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37171
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3488, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8D99

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *l'ewʔ): semantic 走 + phonetic 肖 (OC *slew, *slews).

趙

1. (obsolete) to run; to gallop; to move quickly
2. (historical) (～國) Zhao (a former city-state in Hongdong, Shanxi, China, under the Zhou)
3. (historical) (～國) Zhao (a former kingdom in Shanxi and Hebei, China, during the Warring States)

   • 秦使武安君白起擊，大破趙於長平，四十餘萬盡殺之。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     秦使武安君白起击，大破赵于长平，四十余万尽杀之。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

     Qín shǐ Wǔ'ān jūn Bái Qǐ jī, dà pò Zhào yú Chángpíng, sìshí yú wàn jìn shā zhī. [Pinyin]

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4. (historical) (～國) Zhao (a former kingdom in Hebei, China, during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms)
5. (historical) (～州) Zhao (a former prefecture of imperial China around Zhaozhou in modern Hebei)
6. (～縣) Zhao (a county in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China)
7. Zhao, a surname, the surname of the Song emperors, causing it to be listed first in the Baijiaxing

   趙紫陽／赵紫阳  ―  Zhào Zǐyáng  ―  Zhao Ziyang (Chinese politician)

   趙本山／赵本山  ―  Zhào Běnshān  ―  Zhao Benshan (Chinese skit and sitcom actor, comedian, television director)

8. (Internet slang, officially proscribed, often attributive) synonym of 中國共產黨 / 中国共产党 (Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng), the Communist Party of China

• → English: Chao, Zhao, Chiu

趙

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to weed the ground; to hoe

   • 其笠伊糾，其鎛斯趙，以薅荼蓼。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     其笠伊纠，其镈斯赵，以薅荼蓼。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Qí lì yī jiū, qí bó sī diào, yǐ hāo túliǎo. [Pinyin]

     With their light splint hats on their heads,
     They ply their hoes on the ground,
     Clearing away the smart-weed on the dry land and wet.

• “趙”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• “趙”, in 重編國語辭典修訂本 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan), 2021.
• “趙”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
• “Entry #6370”, in 臺灣客語辭典 [Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka] (overall work in Chinese and Hakka), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2022.
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “赵”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 180.

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

• On (unclassified): ちょう (chō)^{←てう (teu, historical)}、じょう (jō)^{←でう (deu, historical)}
• Kun: こえる (koeru, 趙える)、およぶ (oyobu)、すばしこい (subashikoi)

趙 • (jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune–Reischauer cho, Yale co)

1. a surname

趙: Hán Nôm readings: Triệu, triệu

1. chữ Hán form of Triệu (“a surname from Chinese”)

   趙氏貞 ― Triệu Thị Trinh