拼音
- xiào (fourth tone, falling)most common
- jiào (fourth tone, falling)
school; (jiào) to check against an original, to proofread, to collate
字形拆解
Ideographic description
⿰木交The sequence reads left to right and describes how the parts are arranged.
- 木meaning partno entry yetWood: the earliest sense of the character is a wooden frame, a set of stocks or a fenced ground.
- 交sound partno entry yet交 jiāo for the sound; it pictures a standing figure with the legs crossed.
Mnemonic
Wood 木 with 交 jiāo for the sound. The character began as a wooden frame and then a fenced enclosure — a drill ground — and from the ground where the young were trained came the school: 学校, 校长 a principal, 学校门口. In the fourth tone jiào it keeps a quite separate life in the print shop: 校对 to proofread, 校正 to correct against the original.
A memory aid written by HSK Guide editors. It is not an etymology and does not describe the historical origin of the character.