交叉

Chinese

		to deliver; to turn over; to make friends to deliver; to turn over; to make friends; to intersect (lines); to pay (money)	to cross; be stuck; to diverge to cross; be stuck; to diverge; to open (as legs); fork; pitchfork; prong; pick; cross; intersect
simp. and trad. (交叉)		交	叉

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiāochā

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄠ ㄔㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gaau¹ caa¹ / kaau¹ caa¹

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kau-chha / kau-chhe / kau-chhee

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiāochā
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄠ ㄔㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jiaocha
    • Wade–Giles: chiao¹-chʻa¹
    • Yale: jyāu-chā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiaucha
    • Palladius: цзяоча (czjaoča)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gaau¹ caa¹ / kaau¹ caa¹
    • Yale: gāau chā / kāau chā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gaau¹ tsaa¹ / kaau¹ tsaa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: gao¹ ca¹ / kao¹ ca¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaːu̯⁵⁵ t͡sʰaː⁵⁵/, /kʰaːu̯⁵⁵ t͡sʰaː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kau-chha
    • Tâi-lô: kau-tsha
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kauzhaf
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /kau³³ t͡sʰa³³/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /kau⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sʰa⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kau-chhe
    • Tâi-lô: kau-tshe
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kauzhef
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /kau⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sʰe⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kau-chhee
    • Tâi-lô: kau-tshee
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /kau⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sʰɛ⁴⁴/

Verb

交叉

1. to intersect; to cross; to crisscross

   交叉雙臂／交叉双臂  ―  jiāochā shuāngbì  ―  to cross one's arms

   交叉手指  ―  jiāochā shǒuzhǐ  ―  to cross one's fingers

2. to overlap
3. to alternate; to stagger

Synonyms

• (to intersect):

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• 交會 / 交会 (jiāohuì) (formal)
• 交織 / 交织 (jiāozhī)
• 交錯 / 交错 (jiāocuò)
• 相交 (xiāngjiāo)

• (to overlap):

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• 層疊 / 层叠 (céngdié)
• 打垛 (da³ do⁵) (Xiang)
• 重疊 / 重叠 (chóngdié)
• 錯疊 / 错叠 (cuòdié)

• (to alternate)

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• 交接 (jiāojiē)
• 交替 (jiāotì)
• 穿插 (chuānchā)
• 織 / 织 (zhī)
• 輪流 / 轮流 (lúnliú)
• 輪番 / 轮番 (lúnfān)

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “to intersect”): 平行 (píngxíng)

Adjective

交叉

1. (attributive) interdisciplinary

   交叉科學／交叉科学  ―  jiāochā kēxué  ―  interdisciplinary science

2. (attributive) intersectional

Synonyms

• (interdisciplinary):

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• 科際 / 科际 (kējì)
• 跨學科 / 跨学科 (kuàxuékē)

Noun

交叉

1. (fencing) coupe
2. (Cantonese) cross (Classifier: 個／个)

   答案正確嘅就剔一下，錯嘅就打個交叉。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   答案正确嘅就剔一下，错嘅就打个交叉。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   daap³ on³ zing³ kok³ ge³ zau⁶ tik¹ jat¹ haa⁵, co³ ge³ zau⁶ daa² go³ kaau¹ caa¹. [Jyutping]

   Put a check mark for correct answers and a cross for wrong ones.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 叉 (“cross (for marking as wrong or deletion)”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		叉
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	叉兒, 叉子
	Taiwan	叉
	Malaysia	叉
	Singapore	叉
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	叉叉兒, 錯號兒
Lanyin Mandarin	Ürümqi	叉叉子
Southwestern Mandarin	Guilin	叉
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	叉
	Yangzhou	叉子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	交叉
	Hong Kong	交叉
Huizhou	Jixi	叉
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	叉
Southern Min	Xiamen	叉
	Quanzhou	叉
	Zhangzhou	叉
	Tainan	叉仔
	Puning	參叉
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	叉

Derived terms

• 交叉口 (jiāochākǒu)
• 交叉性 (jiāochāxìng)
• 交叉感染 (jiāochā gǎnrǎn)
• 交叉線 / 交叉线 (jiāochāxiàn)
• 交叉點 / 交叉点 (jiāochādiǎn)
• 視交叉 / 视交叉 (shìjiāochā)
• 立體交叉 / 立体交叉 (lìtǐ jiāochā)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
交	叉
こう Grade: 2	さ Jinmeiyō
kan'on

For pronunciation and definitions of 交叉 – see the following entry.

【交差こうさ】 [noun] crossing, intersection [noun] (genetics) crossover [verb] cross, intersect

(This term, 交叉, is an alternative spelling (rare) of the above term.)

References

• “交^▲叉”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja in this term
交	叉

Noun

交叉 • (gyocha) (hangeul 교차)

1. hanja form^? of 교차