漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
教: teach, faith
Also: doctrine
攵 carries the meaning · 孝 gives the sound
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Western Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
キョウkyou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 教育するきょういくするeducate
- 教授きょうじゅteaching, professor
- 教師きょうしteacher
- 教室きょうしつclassroom
- 教科書きょうかしょtext book
- 教養きょうようcultivation, culture
- 教会きょうかいchurch
- 宗教しゅうきょうreligion
- 仏教ぶっきょうBuddhism
おしえるoshieru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 教えるおしえるteach, inform [v.t.]
おそわるosowaru · kun'yomi
- 教わるおそわるbe taught [v.i.]
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)爻 (sound) + 子 child (meaning) + 攴 teaching cane; stick that represents authority, as 攵 (meaning)
Teaching a child.
Source: Wiktionary, 教 (rev. 92200621), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Whack! A hand with a stick is ready to take command.”
Connections
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · jiào
Same form: 教 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 教 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 教 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jiào most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.