交

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to hand over; to deliver; to pay (money); to turn over; to make friends; (of lines) to intersect; variant of 跤[jiao1]

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HSK 3.0: Level 2
Old HSK: Level 4
Strokes: 6
Radical: 亠 +4
Structure: Top–bottom 上下
Traditional: 交
Common rank: #143
Unicode: U+4EA4

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Formation & memory

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How 交 is formed

Ideographic compound (会意字)

A person with crossed (intersecting) legs

Components 六乂

How to remember it

mingle · Heisig RSH #1044

top hat + 父 father

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 交

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
上海交通大学	Shàng hǎi Jiāo tōng Dà xué	Shanghai Jiao Tong University
西安交通大学	Xī ān Jiāo tōng Dà xué	Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU)
交通大学	Jiāo tōng Dà xué	abbr. for 上海交通大學\|上海交通大学 Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 西安交通大學\|西安交通大学 Xia'an Jiaotong Unive…
西南交通大学	Xī nán Jiāo tōng Dà xué	Southwest Jiaotong University
一面之交	yī miàn zhī jiāo	to have met once; casual acquaintance
交口县	Jiāo kǒu Xiàn	Jiaokou, a county in Lüliang City 呂梁市\|吕梁市[Lu : 3 liang2 Shi4], Shanxi
交大	Jiāo dà	Jiaotong University; University of Communications; abbr. of 交通大學\|交通大学[Jiao1 tong1 Da4 xue2…
交城县	Jiāo chéng Xiàn	Jiaocheng, a county in Lüliang City 呂梁市\|吕梁市[Lu : 3 liang2 Shi4], Shanxi
交心	jiāo xīn	to open one's heart; to have a heart-to-heart conversation
点头之交	diǎn tóu zhī jiāo	nodding acquaintance
美国交会	Měi guó Jiāo huì	abbr. for 美國證券交易委員會\|美国证券交易委员会, US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
性交	xìng jiāo	sexual intercourse
不可开交	bù kě kāi jiāo	to be awfully (busy etc)
公交车	gōng jiāo chē	public transport vehicle; town bus; CL:輛\|辆[liang4]
文化交流	wén huà jiāo liú	cultural exchange
外交家	wài jiāo jiā	diplomat
平交道	píng jiāo dào	level crossing
上交	shàng jiāo	to hand over to; to give to higher authority; to seek connections in high places
交会	jiāo huì	to encounter; to rendezvous; to converge; to meet (a payment)
交安	jiāo ān	road traffic safety (abbr. for 交通安全)

Sound family

These characters use 交 as their sound component — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
交 sound part	jiāo	to connect; to deliver, to exchange; to intersect; to mix
校	xiào	school; military field officer
效	xiào	result, effect; effective
咬	yǎo	to bite, to gnaw
较	jiào	to compare; relatively; more
绞	jiǎo	intertwined; to twist, to wring; to hang a criminal
郊	jiāo	suburbs, outskirts; wasteland, open space
饺	jiǎo	stuffed dumplings
狡	jiǎo	cunning, deceitful, treacherous
皎	jiǎo	white; bright, brilliant; clear
鲛	jiāo	shark
跤	jiāo	to tumble, to fall; to wrestle
蛟	jiāo	a legendary scaled dragon
佼	jiǎo	beautiful, handsome, good-looking
姣	jiāo	beautiful, handsome, pretty
洨	xiáo	a river in Hebei province
茭	jiāo	an edible aquatic grass; Zizania aquatica