xiáojiǎojiào

bamboo rope

Bamboo ⺮ used to tie  things;  also provides the pronunciation

Components
⺮ meaning component

  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

交 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

jiāo

  

to cross

Evolution

筊 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
筊 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

xiáo

bamboo rope; bamboo object used

 

jiào

variant of [jiào]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

7735th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+7B4A

Shuowen

“筊,竹索也。从竹,交聲。”


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