巧

Meaning

巧 centers on refined ability: being adroit, skilled, or showing ingenuity in making or doing something.

• 巧みたくみ
  N1

  skillful; adroit; dexterous; masterful; clever; ingenious; cunning

• 巧こう

  skilfulness; skillfulness; cleverness

• 巧妙こうみょう
  N1

  ingenious; skillful; clever; deft; sophisticated

• 精巧せいこう
  N1

  elaborate; delicate; exquisite

• 技巧ぎこう

  technique; finesse

• 巧緻こうち

  elaborate; exquisite; detailed

• 悪巧みわるだくみ

  wiles; sinister design; trick; conspiracy; intrigue

• 機巧きこう

  trick; contrivance; cleverness

• 巧者こうしゃ

  cleverness; skill; tact

• 巧拙こうせつ

  skill; workmanship; dexterity; quality

• 不精巧ふせいこう

  clumsy; bungling

• 乞巧奠きっこうでん

  Festival to Plead for Skills (progenitor festival of Tanabata)

• 口巧者くちごうしゃ

  smooth-spoken

• 大巧たいこう

  great talent

• 大胆巧妙だいたんこうみょう

  bold and clever; daring and ingenious; audacious and masterly

• 奇技淫巧きぎいんこう

  ingenious but pointless trick; artifice for its own sake

• 工巧明くぎょうみょう

  silpasthanavidya (ancient Indian study of the arts, incl. mathematics and mechanics)

• 巧と拙こうとせつ

  skillfulness and clumsiness

• 巧まざるたくまざる

  natural; artless; guileless

• 巧まぬたくまぬ

  natural; artless; guileless

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