漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
校: exam, school
Also: printing, proof, correction
JLPT N510 strokesGrade 1Your ink: 白 Not met
木 carries the meaning · 交 gives the sound
10 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
コウkou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 学校がっこうschool
- 母校ぼこうalma mater
- 小学校しょうがっこうelementary school
- 中学校ちゅうがっこうjunior high school
- 高校生こうこうせいsenior high school student
- 予備校よびこうcram school
- 校正するこうせいするproofread
Also read キョウ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)木 tree (meaning) + 交 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 校 (rev. 90028528), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Stand before a great, ancient tree and see 木! The vertical line is the sturdy trunk, the top strokes are branches reaching for the sunlight, and the bottom strokes are the roots gripping the earth.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
交
Also built on mingle (交)
校 takes the 交 family's reading, コウ (kou).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side校 exam · 木
vs効 merit · 力In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · xiào
Same form: 校 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 校 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 校 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin xiào most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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