校
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(bound form) school; college; (bound form) (military) field officer
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 1
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 木 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 校
- Common rank
- #700
- Unicode
- U+6821
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Formation & memory
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Words with 校
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 学校 | school; CL:所[suo3] | |
| 海军大校 | commodore (= US Navy equivalent) | |
| 工业学校 | technical or industrial school; CL:個|个[ge4],所[suo3] | |
| 海军中校 | commander (= UK and US Navy equivalent) | |
| 半日制学校 | half-day (or double-shift) school | |
| 海军上校 | captain (= UK and US Navy equivalent) | |
| 公立学校 | public school | |
| 西点军校 | West Point; United States Military Academy | |
| 出校门 | (fig.) to leave school; to graduate; to enter the world beyond school | |
| 普通高等学校招生全国统一考试 | NCEE, National College Entrance Examination (college entrance exam in PRC); usually abbr. … | |
| 校运会 | (school) field day; sports day | |
| 高等学校 | colleges and universities | |
| 大校 | senior ranking officer in Chinese army; senior colonel | |
| 校区 | campus | |
| 中校 | middle ranking officer in Chinese army; lieutenant colonel; commander | |
| 校地 | (Tw) the land on which a school is built (or is intended to be built) | |
| 技工学校 | vocational high school | |
| 中等专业学校 | vocational secondary school; technical secondary school | |
| 上校 | high ranking officer in Chinese army; colonel | |
| 校花 | the prettiest girl in the school (see also 校草[xiao4 cao3]); school beauty queen; campus be… |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 交 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 交 sound part | to connect; to deliver, to exchange; to intersect; to mix | |
| 效 | result, effect; effective | |
| 咬 | to bite, to gnaw | |
| 较 | to compare; relatively; more | |
| 绞 | intertwined; to twist, to wring; to hang a criminal | |
| 郊 | suburbs, outskirts; wasteland, open space | |
| 饺 | stuffed dumplings | |
| 狡 | cunning, deceitful, treacherous | |
| 皎 | white; bright, brilliant; clear | |
| 鲛 | shark | |
| 跤 | to tumble, to fall; to wrestle | |
| 蛟 | a legendary scaled dragon | |
| 佼 | beautiful, handsome, good-looking | |
| 姣 | beautiful, handsome, pretty | |
| 洨 | a river in Hebei province | |
| 茭 | an edible aquatic grass; Zizania aquatica |