Chinese Character Wiki

筊

xiáo, jiǎo, jiào

bamboo rope

Bamboo ⺮ used to tie 交 things; 交 also provides the pronunciation

Components
⺮ meaning component

⺮  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

交 sound,meaning component

交  Sound Meaning component

jiāo

  

to cross

Evolution

筊 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
筊 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

筊  

xiáo

bamboo rope; bamboo object used

筊  

jiào

variant of 珓[jiào]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

7735th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+7B4A

Shuowen

“筊，竹索也。从竹，交聲。”


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