jiāo
verb HSK 2 #863

Meanings

  1. 1 to hand over
  2. 2 to pay
  3. 3 to make (friends)

Examples

HSK 2
Qǐng jiāo zuòyè.
Please hand in your homework.
HSK 3
Nǐ jiāo le fángzū ma?
Have you paid the rent?
HSK 3
Tā hěn róngyì jiāodào péngyou.
He makes friends easily.

Tips

usage
is extremely versatile: 交钱 (pay money), 交朋友 (make friends), 交作业 (submit homework), 交通 (traffic).

Components

pictograph
jiāo
cross; exchange; intersect
An ancient pictograph of a frontal person with the legs crossed at the calves - top dot-and-horizontal the head and shoulders, four lower strokes the two legs interleaving. From limb-crossing came every sense of : meet, exchange, hand over, mutual. Indexed under Kangxi #8 (tóu, lid) - just the figure's head-stroke.

Filed under radical (tóu, #8) by convention. is not a separate component in , so no strokes are highlighted.

Stroke Order

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