jiào
noun #30,966

Meanings

  1. 1 cellar; underground storage pit
  2. 2 to store (food, wine, ice) in a cellar

Examples

Běifāng rén dōngtiān bǎ báicài fàng zài dìjiào lǐ.
Northerners store cabbage in cellars during winter.
Zhè jiǔ zài dìjiào lǐ jiào le èrshí nián.
This wine has been cellared underground for twenty years.

Tips

memory
(cave/pit radical) on top + (gào, phonetic) below. The cave-radical signals an underground pit; the reading shifted from gào to jiào. Common compounds: 地窖 dìjiào (cellar), bīngjiào (ice cellar), 红薯 hóngshǔjiào (sweet-potato pit).

Stroke Order

jiào