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校

校

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

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.
 校

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 校
Large seal script Small seal 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

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

Pronunciation 1

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 校 (學校)
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 校
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 肴 (90)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 胡敎切
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 校
Reading # 2/2
No. 6330
Phonetic
component		 交
Rime
group		 宵
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 效
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡreːws/

Definitions

校

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

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Rime
Character 校
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 肴 (90)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 胡敎切
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 校
Reading # 2/2
No. 6330
Phonetic
component		 交
Rime
group		 宵
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 效
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡreːws/

Definitions

校

  1. (military) field officer

Compounds

Pronunciation 3

Rime
Character 校
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 肴 (90)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古孝切
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 校
Reading # 1/2
No. 6314
Phonetic
component		 交
Rime
group		 宵
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 敎
Old
Chinese		 /*kreːws/

Definitions

校

  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

校

(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

校 • ‎(gyo)
Eumhun:

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

Vietnamese

Han character

校 (hiệu, chò, giâu, giáo, hào)

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