adroit, skilled, ingenuity
巧 centers on refined ability: being adroit, skilled, or showing ingenuity in making or doing something.
巧 combines 工 (work, craft) with 丂, which likely contributes the sound and may relate to breath or effort, suggesting skilled workmanship.
The left side 工 represents craft or work, and the right side 丂 looks like a tool or a breath of effort. Together they show skilled, ingenious work.
For コウ, imagine a skilled craftsman named Kou who makes ingenious tools: Kou -> コウ, and his work is always adroit.
skillful; adroit; dexterous; masterful; clever; ingenious; cunning
skilfulness; skillfulness; cleverness
ingenious; skillful; clever; deft; sophisticated
elaborate; delicate; exquisite
technique; finesse
elaborate; exquisite; detailed
wiles; sinister design; trick; conspiracy; intrigue
trick; contrivance; cleverness
cleverness; skill; tact
clumsy; bungling
Festival to Plead for Skills (progenitor festival of Tanabata)
smooth-spoken
great talent
bold and clever; daring and ingenious; audacious and masterly
ingenious but pointless trick; artifice for its own sake
silpasthanavidya (ancient Indian study of the arts, incl. mathematics and mechanics)
skillfulness and clumsiness
natural; artless; guileless
natural; artless; guileless
to devise; to plot; to plan