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交

交

交 U+4EA4, 交
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4EA4
← 亣
[U+4EA3] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 亥 →
[U+4EA5]

Translingual

Stroke order

In current form, resembles 亠 + 父 or 六 + 乂.

Han character

交 (radical 8 亠+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 卜金大 (YCK), four-corner 00408, composition ⿱亠父)

  1. mix
  2. intersect
  3. exchange, communicate
  4. deliver

Derived characters

Related characters

References

  • KangXi: page 88, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 291
  • Dae Jaweon: page 185, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 282, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+4EA4

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 交

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 交
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Bronze inscriptions

b15079

b15080

b15081

b15082
Large seal script

L07944

L07946

L07947

L07948

L07949

L07950

L07951

L07952

L07953

L07954

L07955

L07956

L07957

L07958

L07959
Small seal script

s07496
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (交) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
烄 *keːws, *kreːwʔ
礮 *pʰreːws
交 *kreːw
郊 *kreːw
茭 *kreːw, *kreːwʔ, *ɡreːwʔ
蛟 *kreːw
鮫 *kreːw
鵁 *kreːw
咬 *kreːw, *ŋɡreːwʔ, *qreːw
鉸 *kreːw, *kreːwʔ, *kreːws
佼 *kreːw, *kreːwʔ, *ɡreːwʔ
詨 *kreːw, *qʰreːws, *ɡreːws
絞 *kreːwʔ
狡 *kreːwʔ
姣 *kreːwʔ, *ɡreːw
筊 *kreːwʔ, *ɡreːw
校 *kreːws, *ɡreːws
珓 *kreːws
跤 *kʰreːw
頝 *kʰreːw
骹 *kʰraːw
齩 *ŋɡreːwʔ
洨 *ɡreːw
胶 *ɡreːw
效 *ɡreːws
効 *ɡreːws
傚 *ɡreːws
皎 *keːwʔ
恔 *keːwʔ
晈 *keːwʔ
窔 *qeːws
駮 *pqreːwɢ

Pictogram (象形) – a figure with crossed legs: mix, cross, exchange. Figure originally similar to 大, with crossed legs later simplified to this current form.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 交
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 肴 (90)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古肴切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠau/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kᵚau/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kau/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kaɨw/
Li
Rong		 /kau/
Wang
Li		 /kau/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kau/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiāo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 交
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiāo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kæw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ˤraw/
English cross (v.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 交
Reading # 1/1
No. 6296
Phonetic
component		 交
Rime
group		 宵
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 交
Old
Chinese		 /*kreːw/

Definitions

交

  1. to hand over; to turn in; to submit
    交功課 / 交功课 [Cantonese]  ―  gaau1 gung1 fo3 [Jyutping]  ―  to turn in homework
  2. to deliver
  3. to intersect; to cross

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

交

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. to intersect
  2. to keep company with; to mix with
  3. to cross

Readings

Compounds

Related terms

Korean

Hanja

交 • ‎(gyo) (hangeul 교, revised gyo, McCune-Reischauer kyo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

交 (giao)

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