jiǎo

beautiful

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

is a component form of .

交 sound component

  Sound component

jiāo

  

to cross

Evolution

佼 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
佼 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
佼 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

jiǎo

beautiful, handsome, good-looking; handsome

Most common words with 佼
Freq.
Word
Meaning

佼佼者

well-known figure

handsome