xiàojiào

school

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

交 sound component

  Sound component

jiāo

  

to cross

Evolution

校 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
校 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

xiào

school; military field officer; military officer; CL:[suǒ]

 

jiào

to proofread; to check; to compare

Most common words with 校
Freq.
Word
Meaning

学校

school

school

校长

headmaster

上校

colonel

高校

abbr. for 高等學校|高等学校

Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 49.6556% of movies

514th most common character in movies

633rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+6821

Shuowen

“校,木囚也。从木,交聲。”


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