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交

jiāo

to cross

Pictograph of a person standing with crossed legs, conveying the meaning "to cross".

Evolution

交 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
交 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
交 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

交  

jiāo

mix; intersect; exchange, communicate; deliver; to hand over; to deliver; to pay (money); to turn over; to make friends; to intersect (lines); variant of 跤[jiāo]

Most common words with 交
Freq.
Word
Meaning

交

to hand over

交易

business deal

交通

traffic

交流

to exchange

交给

to give

Component uses

Meaning component in 4 characters (0 verified)

胶 鉸 铰 筊

Sound component in 24 characters (8 verified)

較 较 效 校 咬 郊 餃 饺 胶 狡 絞 绞 蛟 跤 佼 皎 鉸 铰 姣 鮫 鲛 茭 筊 洨

Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)

駮

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ˤraw

kaew

jiāo

cross (v.)


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 82.7967% of movies

357th most common character in movies

320th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+4EA4

Shuowen

“交，交脛也。从大，象交形。”


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