jiǎo

stuffed dumplings

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
饣 meaning component

  Meaning component

shí

  

eat

is a component form of .

交 sound component

  Sound component

jiāo

  

to cross

Evolution

饺 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
饺 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

jiǎo

stuffed dumplings; dumplings with meat filling

Most common words with 饺
Freq.
Word
Meaning

饺子

dumpling

dumplings with meat filling

水饺

boiled dumpling

包饺子

to wrap jiaozi (dumplings or potstickers)

蒸饺

steamed dumpling

Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 1.0412% of movies

3343rd most common character in movies

3650th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

Unicode

U+997A


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