校

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 交 – teach under a tree.

Han character

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

1. school
2. military field officer

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

校 (Yale gaau3, haau6)

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Japanese

Kanji

校 (grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: こう (kō), きょう (kyō), ぎょう (gyō)
• Kun: かせ (kase)

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

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Korean

Hanja

校
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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

校 (pinyin xiào (xiao4), Wade-Giles hsiao⁴)

Compounds

xiào 校服 校友 校门 校董 校方 校歌 校工 校际 校纪 校刊 校历

校旗 校企 校庆 校容 校舍 校外 校尉 校务 校训 校园 校友 校长 校址 jiào 校對 (校对)

Usage notes

• Can be used in set phrases including the abbreviation 在校 (from 学校), for example: 在校斗殴 ("fighting at school").

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Vietnamese

Han character

校 (giáo, hiệu, hào)