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Definition 2024


Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(radical 75 +6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 木卜金大 (DYCK), four-corner 40948, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 522, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14713
  • Dae Jaweon: page 910, character 27
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1205, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+6821

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*keːws, *kreːwʔ
*pʰreːws
*kreːw
*kreːw
*kreːw, *kreːwʔ, *ɡreːwʔ
*kreːw
*kreːw
*kreːw
*kreːw, *ŋɡreːwʔ, *qreːw
*kreːw, *kreːwʔ, *kreːws
*kreːw, *kreːwʔ, *ɡreːwʔ
*kreːw, *qʰreːws, *ɡreːws
*kreːwʔ
*kreːwʔ
*kreːwʔ, *ɡreːw
*kreːwʔ, *ɡreːw
*kreːws, *ɡreːws
*kreːws
*kʰreːw
*kʰreːw
*kʰraːw
*ŋɡreːwʔ
*ɡreːw
*ɡreːw
*ɡreːws
*ɡreːws
*ɡreːws
*keːwʔ
*keːwʔ
*keːwʔ
*qeːws
*pqreːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kreːws, *ɡreːws) : semantic  (tree) + phonetic  (OC *kreːw) – a wooden implement of punishment.

Pronunciation 1



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 校 (學)
Mandarin Beijing /ɕiɑu⁵¹/
Harbin /ɕiau⁵³/
Tianjin /ɕiɑu⁵³/
Jinan /ɕiɔ²¹/
Qingdao /ɕiɔ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ɕiau³¹²/
Xi'an /ɕiau⁴⁴/
Xining /ɕiɔ²¹³/
Yinchuan /ɕiɔ¹³/
Lanzhou /ɕiɔ¹³/
Ürümqi /ɕiɔ²¹³/
Wuhan /ɕiau³⁵/
Chengdu /ɕiau¹³/
Guiyang /ɕiao²¹/
Kunming /ɕiɔ²¹²/
Nanjing /ɕiɔo⁴⁴/
Hefei /ɕiɔ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕiau⁴⁵/
Pingyao /ɕiɔ³⁵/
Hohhot /ɕiɔ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ɦiɔ²³/
Suzhou /ɦiæ³¹/
Hangzhou /ɦiɔ¹³/
Wenzhou /ɦuɔ²²/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕiɔ³²⁴/
Tunxi /t͡ɕio³¹/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕiau⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /ɕiaɯ⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /hɑu²¹/
Hakka Meixian /kau³¹/
Taoyuan /kɑu³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /hau²²/
Nanning /kau³³/
Hong Kong /hau²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hau²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /hɑu²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xau⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /hau³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /hiau³³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2
Initial () (33)
Final () (90)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦˠauH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦᵚauH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣauH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦaɨwH/
Li
Rong
/ɣauH/
Wang
Li
/ɣauH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣauH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xiào
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 2/2
No. 6330
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡreːws/

Definitions

  1. school; college; university
  2. A surname.

Compounds

Pronunciation 2



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2
Initial () (33)
Final () (90)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦˠauH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦᵚauH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣauH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦaɨwH/
Li
Rong
/ɣauH/
Wang
Li
/ɣauH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣauH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xiào
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 2/2
No. 6330
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡreːws/

Definitions

  1. (military) field officer

Compounds

Pronunciation 3



Rime
Character
Reading # 2/2
Initial () (28)
Final () (90)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠauH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kᵚauH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kauH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kaɨwH/
Li
Rong
/kauH/
Wang
Li
/kauH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kauH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jiào
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2
No. 6314
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kreːws/

Definitions

  1. fetters; shackles
  2. railing; barracks
  3. (historical) horsekeeper official
  4. to examine; to check
  5. to proofread; to check; to compare
  6. (printing) proof
  7. to oppose; to resist
  8. to contest
  9. to bother about; to fuss about
  10. to decorate
  11. to calculate

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

  • 学校 (がっこう, gakkō): school
  • 校僕 (こうぼく, kōboku): school custodian
  • 校舎 (こうしゃ, kōsha): school building
  • 校門 (こうもん, koumon): school gate

Korean

Hanja

(gyo)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul):  (revised: gyo, McCune-Reischauer: kyo, Yale: kyo)
  • Name (hangeul): 학교 (revised: hakgyo, McCune-Reischauer: hakkyo, Yale: hakqkyo)
  1. school, educational establishment

Vietnamese

Han character

(hiệu, chò, giâu, giáo, hào)

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