jiào
compare
Original meaning:
horizontal beams on a carriage
Phonosemantic compound. 车 represents the meaning and 交 represents the sound. Simplified form of 較. Based on the original meaning "horizontal beams on a carriage". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Evolution
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Most common words with 较
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to compare | ||
to compare | ||
comparatively large | ||
comparatively | ||
better |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 40.3652% of movies
1081st most common character in movies
491st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+8F83 |
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