教

See also: 敎

Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

• 敎

Etymology

孝 (“old man and child”) + 攵 (“action”) – an old man teaching a child.

Han character

教 (radical 66 攴+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 十木人大 (JDOK), four-corner 4844₀, composition ⿰孝攵)

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 472, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13213
• Dae Jaweon: page 823, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1459, character 9
• Unihan data for U+6559

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		教

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiào, jiāo (jiao⁴, jiao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄠˋ, ㄐㄧㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gaau³
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): kau/kâu
• Min Nan (POJ): kà / kàu
• Wu (WT Romanisation): qiau (T2); kau (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jiào
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄠˋ
    • Wade-Giles: chiao⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiaw
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/

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  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jiāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄠ
    • Wade-Giles: chiao¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiau
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gaau³
    • Yale: gaau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gaau³
    • IPA ^(key): /kɑːu̯³³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kau/kâu
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /ka̯u⁵⁵/, /ka̯u²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kà / kàu
    • Tâi-lô: kà / kàu
    • IPA (Taipei): /ka¹¹/, /kaʊ¹¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ka²¹/, /kaʊ²¹/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: qiau (T2); kau (T2)
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰiɔ³⁴/, /kɔ³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (教, reconstructed)
Character (教), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 肴 Division: II			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 古肴切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kɣau/	/kau/	/kau/	/kɯau/	/kaɨw/	/kau/	/kau/

Old Chinese pronunciation (教, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
教								jiāo								‹ kæw ›								/*s.[k]ˤraw/								teach
教								jiào								‹ kæwH ›								/*s.kˤraw-s/								teaching; instruction
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.

Definitions

教

1. to teach; class
2. religion, religious teachings
3. a surname

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Japanese

Kanji

教

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: きょう (kyō) < けう (keu)
• Kan’on: こう (kō) < かう (kau) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kun: おしえる (oshieru), おしえ (oshie), おそわる (osowaru)

Compounds

Derived terms

教育 (きょういく, kyōiku, “education”) 教室 (きょうしつ, kyōshitsu, “classroom”) 教員 (きょういん, kyōin) 教化 (きょうか, kyōka) 教科 (きょうか, kyōka) 教会 (きょうかい, kyōkai) 教戒, 教誨 (きょうかい, kyōkai) 教学 (きょうがく, kyōgaku) 教材 (きょうざい, kyōzai, “teaching materials”) 教義 (きょうぎ, kyōgi) 教師 (きょうし, kyōshi) 教授 (きょうじゅ, kyōju) 教習 (きょうしゅう, kyōshū) 教習所 (きょうしゅうじょ, kyōshūjo) 教訓 (きょうくん, kyōkun) 教条 (きょうじょう, kyōjō) 教法 (きょうほう, kyōhō, “teaching methods”) 宗教 (しゅうきょう, shūkyō, “religion”) 教条主義 (きょうじょうしゅぎ, kyōjōshugi) 教諭 (きょうゆ, kyōyu) 教養 (きょうよう, kyōyō) 回教 (かいきょう, kaikyō) 儒教 (じゅきょう, jukyō) 調教 (ちょうきょう, chōkyō) 教祖 (きょうそ, kyōso)

Proper noun

教 (hiragana さとし, romaji Satoshi)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

教 (gyo) (hangeul 교, McCune-Reischauer kyo, Yale kyo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

教 (giáo, dáo, ráu, tráo)

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