(jiào) - teach in Mandarin
jiàoTraditional: 教
Translation
teach
Word origin
教 (jiào, 'to teach') is a compound: 攵 (the 'rap, strike' radical on the right) suggests instruction with a switch, while the left element (related to 孝, filial learning) carries the sense of a child being taught.
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- 教 (left element of child/learning + 攵 strike/instruct radical)
Stroke order
教
Examples
语。
She teaches English.
。
He taught me how to do it.
。
Please teach me how to say it.
菜。
Mum is teaching me to cook.
。
He teaches history at university.
教 (jiào) means teach. It is used as a verb in everyday Mandarin speech.
Where this fits
Appears in 3 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 教.
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