(xiào) - school (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
xiàoTraditional: 校
Translation
school (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound: the wood radical 木 recalls early wooden enclosures or stocks, while 交 (jiāo) gives the sound; it settled on the meaning school.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 木 (wood radical) + 交 (jiāo, phonetic)
Stroke order
校
Examples
？
Which school does he study at?
。
The school is very close to my home.
。
School is closed today.
绩。
His grades at school are very good.
课。
We return to school for class tomorrow.
校 (xiào) means school as a bound morpheme. It almost always appears in 学校 (xué xiào), the standard word for school.
Appears in 3 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 校.
Used in
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