jiào

compare

Original meaning: 

horizontal beams on a carriage

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of . Based on the original meaning "horizontal beams on a carriage". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components
车 meaning component

  Meaning component

chē

  

vehicle

交 sound component

  Sound component

jiāo

  

to cross

Evolution

较 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
较 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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jiào

compare; comparatively, more; to compare; to dispute; compared to; (before adj.) relatively; comparatively; rather; also pr. [jiǎo]

Most common words with 较
Freq.
Word
Meaning

比较

to compare

to compare

较大

comparatively large

较为

comparatively

较好

better