交

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – a figure with crossed legs: mix, cross, exchange. Figure originally similar to 大, crossed legs later simplified to current form.

In current form, resembles 亠 + 父 or 六 + 乂.

Han character

交 (radical 8 亠+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 卜金大 (YCK), four-corner 0040₈, composition ⿱亠父)

1. mix
2. intersect
3. exchange, communicate
4. deliver

Derived characters

• 効 (效) 狡 校 餃

Related characters

• 大

See also

• 対　

References

• KangXi: page 88, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 291
• Dae Jaweon: page 185, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 282, character 1
• Unihan data for U+4EA4

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Cantonese

Hanzi

交 (jyutping gaau1, Yale gaau1)

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Japanese

Kanji

交 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: こう (kō), きょう (kyō)
• Kun: まじわる (交わる, majiwaru), まじる (交じる, majiru), かう (交う, kau)

Compounds

入交 援交 外交 国交 交々, 交交 混交 社交 修交 手交 深交 親交 情交 性交 絶交 団交 断交 直交 通交 復交 友交 乱交 旧交 斜交 交易 交角 交感 交換 交歓, 交驩 交誼, 交宜 交響

交互 交合 交差, 交叉 交際 援交 交錯 交渉 交情 交譲 交織 交信 交声曲 交接 交戦 交替, 交代 交通 交点 交読 交配 交番 交尾 交付 交附 交友 交遊 交絡 交流 交霊 交媾 交詢

Related terms

• 交える
• 交ざる
• 交す, 交わす
• 交ぜる

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Korean

Hanja

交 (hangeul 교, revised gyo, McCune-Reischauer kyo)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

交 (pinyin jiāo (jiao1), Wade-Giles chiao¹)

See also

• 佼 - 効 - 姣 - 校 - 效 - 胶 - 狡 - 皎 - 絞 - 茭 - 蛟 - 跤 - 郊 - 餃 - 鮫

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Vietnamese

Han character

交 (giao)