Chinese Character Wiki

膠

jiāo

glue

Components
⺼ meaning component

⺼  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

flesh

翏 sound component

翏  Sound component

liù

  

to sweep away, to remove

Evolution

膠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
膠 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

胶 (膠) 

jiāo

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

Most common words with 膠
Freq.
Word
Meaning

胶

glue

橡胶

rubber

胶带

adhesive tape

胶片

(photographic) film

胶囊

caplet

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ˤriw

kaew

jiāo

glue

*[k]ˤriwʔ

kaewX

jiǎo

glue


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 14.3681% of movies

1691st most common character in movies

2170th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

胶

Unicode

U+81A0

Shuowen

“膠，昵也，作之以皮。从肉，翏聲。”


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