jiāo
suburbs, outskirts
Phonosemantic compound. 阝 represents the meaning and 交 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ˤraw | kaew | jiāo | suburb |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 5.4781% of movies
2454th most common character in movies
2351st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+90CA |
Shuowen | “郊，距國百里為郊。从邑，交聲。” |
Sources
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