校 (xiào)
school
How 校 is written
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- Traditional
- 校
- Simplified
- 校 (unchanged)
Components
- 木 tree
- 亠 lid
- 八 eight/divide
- 乂 N/A
校 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- jiào
- to proofread; to check; to compare
- xiào
- school; military officer; CL:所[suo3]
Common words using 校
- 學校 xuéxiào
- school; CL:所[suo3]
- 校園 xiàoyuán
- campus
- 名校 míngxiào
- famous school
- 校內 xiàonèi
- Xiaonei (Chinese social network website)
- 校區 xiàoqū
- campus
- 校友 xiàoyǒu
- schoolmate; alumnus; alumna
- 校尉 xiàowèi
- military officer
- 校服 xiàofú
- school uniform
- 校花 xiàohuā
- the prettiest girl in the school (see also 校草); school beauty queen; campus belle
- 校草 xiàocǎo
- the most handsome boy in the school (see also 校花)
- 校車 xiàochē
- school bus
- 校長 xiàozhǎng
- (college, university) president; headmaster; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
校 in a sentence
我每天早上八點到學校上課。
Wǒ měitiān zǎoshàng bā diǎn dào xuéxiào shàngkè.
“I go to school for class at 8 o'clock every morning.”
How common is 校?
校 is the 632nd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 80.8% of all running text.
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