opportunely / coincidentally / as it happens / skillful / timely

= + : The Queen of Hearts (qi) arrived just at the right time (巧) in the aorta (ao3). When she arrived a big chocolate (巧) house, reinforced using steel beams (工), was about to melt and collapse. Just at the right time the Queen of Hearts put a huge breathing mask (丂) under the collapsing structure to collect the chocolate, filter it with the mask and reuse it.

巧 character breakdown

"breath" or "sigh" component in Chinese characters

Mnemonic symbol: a breathing mask.

The air inside of the aorta is so bad that Karl Marx needs a breathing mask to breathe freely.
work / worker / skill / profession / trade / craft / labor

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a steel beam, since 工 looks like the cross section of a steel beam. In front of the engine ((e)ng1), Gitta Giraffe (gu) is doing some hard work: She's stacking a capacitor (二) on a dinosaur bone (丨) on a capacitor (二). She's not very successful, but then she gets the idea to use steel beams (工) as support.

Characters with 巧 as component

hole / opening / orifice (of the human body) / (fig.) key (to the solution of a problem)

Words with 巧

too bad / unfortunately / as luck would have it
small and exquisite / delicate / fine (features) / compact / nifty
by chance / by coincidence / by good luck
tangram (traditional Chinese block puzzle)
quick fix / opportune short cut (around a difficulty) / cheap trick (to get what one wants) / to pull a fast one
skilled workman
arriving early can't beat coming at the right time / perfect timing
by happy coincidence

Sentences with 巧

巧 currently does not appear in any sentence.