How to write 交 (jiāo, “to hand over”)
交 (jiāo), an HSK 2 character, means “to hand over”, “to make friends” and “to intersect”. Make Me a Hanzi uses it in 25 other characters, such as 校 (“school”). On its own it is an HSK 4 word; it also forms 公交车 (“public transport vehicle”), 交流 (“to exchange”) and 交警 (“traffic police”). Japanese reads it kou, “mingle”, as a JLPT N3 kanji.
- Pinyin
- jiāo
- Strokes
- 6
- HSK
- 2
- Radical
- 亠 (“lid”)
Stroke by stroke
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- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
As a top-bottom character it splits into 六 (“six”), strokes 1–4; 乂 (“to regulate”), strokes 5–6, written the top first.
- Vertical ㇑topdown and right
- Horizontal ㇐top leftrightwards
- Left-falling stroke ㇒top leftdownwards → down and left
- Dot ㇔topdown and right
- Left-falling stroke ㇒centerdown and left → leftwards
- Right-falling stroke ㇏leftdown and right
Japanese and Chinese
Japanese and Chinese draw all 6 strokes in the same order and direction, by our stroke-by-stroke comparison.
交 inside other characters
Make Me a Hanzi count: 25 characters.
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Pinyin and meaning
| Pinyin | Meanings | Traditional | In words |
|---|---|---|---|
| jiāo first tone | to hand over; to deliver; to pay (money); to turn over; to make friends; (of lines) to intersect; variant of 跤 (jiāo) | — | 公交车 交流 交警 交通 |
- HSK 2025 syllabus
- level 2
- 2021 standard
- level 2
- HSK 2.0
- in a level 4 word
- Words with it
- 278 in CC-CEDICT
Words with 交
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 交 | jiāo | to hand over; to deliver HSK 4 |
| 公交车 公交車 | gōngjiāochē | public transport vehicle; town bus HSK 2 |
| 交流 | jiāoliú | to exchange; exchange HSK 4 |
| 交警 | jiāojǐng | traffic police (abbr. for 交通警察 (jiāotōngjǐngchá)) HSK 4 |
| 交通 | jiāotōng | to be connected; traffic HSK 4 |
| 交往 | jiāowǎng | to associate (with); to have contact (with) HSK 5 |
| 交换 交換 | jiāohuàn | to exchange; to swap HSK 5 |
| 交易 | jiāoyì | to deal; to trade HSK 5 |
| 提交 | tíjiāo | to submit (a report etc); to refer (a problem) to sb HSK 5 |
| 外交 | wàijiāo | diplomacy; diplomatic HSK 6 |
HSK words first (CC-CEDICT).
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