The 交 family
交 · jiāo · ㄐㄧㄠ — to hand over
Know 交 and the readings of 8 more characters follow: 校、較、效、咬、狡、絞、郊、跤. In traditional Chinese, most characters carry a sound component — a phonetic — and learning the phonetic once lights up its whole family. This page is that family, drawn live from the map.
The characters
One sound, many meanings: the 部首 beside each character is the other half of the pair, the part that tells them apart.
- 校xiào · ㄒㄧㄠˋ部首 木 · treeschool; college; (military) field officer69%
- 較jiào · ㄐㄧㄠˋ部首 車 · carto compare; (literary) to dispute83%
- 效xiào · ㄒㄧㄠˋ部首 攴 · strikeeffect; efficacy69%
- 咬yǎo · ㄧㄠˇ部首 口 · mouthto bite; to nip69%
- 狡jiǎo · ㄐㄧㄠˇ部首 犭 犬部旁 · (literary) dogcrafty; cunning83%
- 絞jiǎo · ㄐㄧㄠˇ部首 糹 絞絲旁 · fine silkto twist (strands into a thread); to entangle83%
- 郊jiāo · ㄐㄧㄠ部首 邑 · citysuburbs; outskirts92%
- 跤jiāo · ㄐㄧㄠ部首 足 · foota tumble; a fall92%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 交 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 交 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 80%.
Words this family builds
- 學校
- 交給
- 交易
- 校對
- 上校
- 比較
- 交流
- 交往
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