郊
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suburbs; outskirts
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 邑 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 郊
- Common rank
- #2,412
- Unicode
- U+90CA
Sound it out + + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
outskirts · Heisig RSH #2810
交 mingle + city walls
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 郊
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 南郊区 | Nanjiao district of Datong city 大同市[Da4 tong2 shi4], Shanxi | |
| 京郊日报 | Beijing Suburbs Daily, newspaper in operation 1980-2018 | |
| 近郊区 | suburbs; city outskirts | |
| 郊区 | Jiao District or Jiaoqu, a district of Tongling City 銅陵市|铜陵市[Tong2 ling2 Shi4], Anhui; Jia… | |
| 郊区 | suburban district; outskirts; suburbs | |
| 市郊 | outer city; suburb | |
| 城郊 | suburbs; outskirts of a city | |
| 郊外 | outskirts | |
| 四郊 | suburb; outskirts (of town) | |
| 郊游 | to go for an outing; to go on an excursion | |
| 远郊 | outer suburbs; remote outskirts of a city | |
| 郊野 | open area outside the city; countryside | |
| 近郊 | suburbs; outskirts | |
| 乡郊 | (HK) rural area on the outskirts of a town or city; rural-urban fringe | |
| 京郊 | suburbs of Beijing | |
| 荒郊 | desolate area outside a town | |
| 郊狼 | coyote (Canis latrans) | |
| 孟郊 | Meng Jiao (751-814), Tang dynasty essayist and poet | |
| 郊祀 | pair of annual sacrificial ceremonies held by the emperor in ancient times: one in the sou… |
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 | |
| 校 | school; military field officer | |
| 效 | result, effect; effective | |
| 咬 | to bite, to gnaw | |
| 较 | to compare; relatively; more | |
| 绞 | intertwined; to twist, to wring; to hang a criminal | |
| 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 |