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教

教

See also: 敎

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

教 (radical 66 攴+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 十木人大 (JDOK), four-corner 48440, composition ⿰孝攵)

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 472, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13213
  • Dae Jaweon: page 823, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1459, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+6559

Chinese

trad. 教/敎
simp. 教
alt. forms 斅
𧧿
𤕝

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 教
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kraːw, *kraːws) : phonetic 爻 ‎(OC *ɢraːw, “divination”) + semantic 子 ‎(“child”) + semantic 攵 ‎(“teaching cane”) – teaching a child counting or divination.

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 教
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 肴 (90)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古肴切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠau/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kᵚau/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kau/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kaɨw/
Li
Rong		 /kau/
Wang
Li		 /kau/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kau/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiāo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 教
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiāo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kæw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s.[k]ˤraw/
English teach

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 教
Reading # 1/2
No. 14642
Phonetic
component		 爻
Rime
group		 宵
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 交
Old
Chinese		 /*kraːw/
Notes 甲文即象執杖敎子，再加爻聲

Definitions

教

  1. to teach; to instruct
    我來教你。 / 我来教你。  ―  Wǒ lái jiāo nǐ.  ―  Let me teach you.

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Rime
Character 教
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 肴 (90)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古孝切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠauH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kᵚauH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kauH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kaɨwH/
Li
Rong		 /kauH/
Wang
Li		 /kauH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kauH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiào
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 教
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiào
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kæwH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s.kˤraw-s/
English teaching; instruction

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 教
Reading # 2/2
No. 14643
Phonetic
component		 爻
Rime
group		 宵
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 敎
Old
Chinese		 /*kraːws/

Definitions

教

  1. to provide guidance; to instruct
  2. (obsolete or Min Nan) to tell (someone to do something); to let; to instruct
  3. etiquette; rules; customs
  4. religion; faith; religious teachings
  5. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

教

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. to teach; teachings

Readings

Compounds

Proper noun

教 ‎(hiragana さとし, romaji Satoshi)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

教 • ‎(gyo) (hangeul 교, McCune-Reischauer kyo, Yale kyo)

  1. teach
  2. class

Vietnamese

Han character

教 (giáo, dáo, ráu, tráo)

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