教
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(bound form) to teach; to instruct; a religion; to cause (sb to do sth); to tell (sb to do sth)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 2
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 攴 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 教
- Common rank
- #181
- Unicode
- U+6559
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
teach · Heisig RSH #1036
孝 filial piety + taskmaster
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 教
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 教学楼 | school building; academic building | |
| 三自教会 | Three-Self Patriotic Movement, PRC government-sanctioned Protestant church from 1949 | |
| 天主教会 | the Catholic Church | |
| 中国天主教爱国会 | Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association | |
| 大主教 | archbishop; primate (of a church); metropolitan | |
| 教学法 | teaching method; pedagogy | |
| 高教机 | advanced trainer aircraft (abbr. for 高級教練機|高级教练机[gao1 ji2 jiao4 lian4 ji1]) | |
| 教学相长 | when you teach someone, both teacher and student will benefit | |
| 天主教 | Catholicism | |
| 罗马公教 | Roman Catholicism | |
| 教子 | to educate one's children; godson | |
| 天理教 | Tenrikyo, a Japanese religion | |
| 一神教 | monotheistic religion; monotheism | |
| 教区 | diocese; parish | |
| 国教 | state religion | |
| 教头 | sporting coach; military drill master (in Song times) | |
| 教学 | to teach | |
| 教学 | teaching; instruction; CL:次[ci4] | |
| 生教 | (Tw) student conduct and life-guidance group (a unit within the student affairs office 學務處… | |
| 三自爱国教会 | Three-Self Patriotic Movement, PRC government-sanctioned Protestant church from 1949 |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 孝 — compare how they read.