jiāo

glue

Tendons that connect  muscles ⺼;  also provides the pronunciation

Components
⺼ meaning component

  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

交 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

jiāo

  

to cross

Evolution

胶 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
胶 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
胶 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
胶 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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jiāo

glue, gum, resin, rubber; to glue; glue; gum; rubber

Most common words with 胶
Freq.
Word
Meaning

glue

橡胶

rubber

胶带

adhesive tape

胶片

(photographic) film

胶囊

caplet

Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 14.3681% of movies

1691st most common character in movies

2170th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

Unicode

U+80F6


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