jiāo

reef

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
石 meaning component

  Meaning component

shídàn

  

stone

焦 sound component

  Sound component

jiāo

  

burned

Definitions

 

jiāo

reef; jetty; submerged rocks; shoal rock

Most common words with 礁
Freq.
Word
Meaning

reef

礁石

reef

暗礁

submerged reef (rock)

珊瑚礁

coral reef

触礁

(fig.) to hit a snag

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.2334% of movies

2899th most common character in movies

2952nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+7901


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