HSK 4 · Emotions

骄傲 jiāo'ào “proud” in Chinese

Traditional 驕傲

What 骄傲 means

  1. proud
  2. pride
  3. conceited
  4. arrogance
  5. proud of sth

How to say 骄傲

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale骄jiāo1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale傲ào4th tone, falling

骄傲 in a sentence

  1. 我一直为您骄傲。

    Wǒ yìzhí wèi nín jiāo'ào.

    I’ve always been proud of you.

    Sentence #7767719 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我为我儿子感到骄傲。

    Wǒ wèi wǒ érzi gǎndào jiāo'ào.

    I’m proud of my son.

    Sentence #829573 from Tatoeba

  3. 他的骄傲不允许他向人求助。

    Tā de jiāo'ào bù yǔnxǔ tā xiàng rén qiúzhù.

    His pride wouldn’t let him ask anyone for help.

    Sentence #4071845 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 骄傲 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 骄 (jiāo) with each of its parts in a different colour
骄jiāoproud
  • 马horse · mǎ
  • 乔tall · qiáo
The character 傲 (ào) with each of its parts in a different colour
傲àoproud
  • 亻person form of 人 · rénMeaning part
  • 敖to ramble · ÁoSound part

亻 hints at the meaning (person); 敖 (Áo) hints at the sound. Compare it with ào.

How to write 骄傲

骄 9 strokes · 傲 12 strokes

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骄傲 (jiāo'ào) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 骄傲 (jiāo'ào). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

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FAQs

骄傲 (jiāo’ào) means “proud” or “pride”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it jiāo’ào: jiāo with a 1st tone, then ào with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 骄傲 is written 驕傲. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jiaoao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 骄傲 from the suggestions. Typing jiaoao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
骄傲 is an HSK 4 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.