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jiāo

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jiāo Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
jiāo | jiao1
English translation
to tumble, to fall; to wrestle

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About jiāo

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Number of strokes

13

Traditional form

jiāo

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Noun morpheme / 名语素 Míng yǔsù

Learning hint

foot

Etymology of jiāo

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

足交

Semantic compound

Phonetic compound

jiāo

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and jiāo represents the sound.

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Example sentences using jiāo

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zhè 男孩 nán hái shuāi le jiāo , le 膝盖 xīgài shǎng de .

The boy fell and scraped the skin off his knee.

zhè 一跤 shuāi zhēn gòu shòu de .

She had a really bad fall.

Jiào xiǎo 弟弟 dìdi 如何 rúhé 摔跤 shuāi jiāo .

He taught his little brother how to wrestle.

保罗 Bǎo luó 吹嘘 chuī xū liū 冰溜 bīng liū hěn bàng , dàn diē le jiāo Hòu , què 哭笑不得 kū xiào bù dé .

Paul boasted that he was a good skater, but after he fell, he laughed on the other side of his face.

大家 dàjiā wèn 是不是 shì bù shì 摔跤 shuāi jiāo de 时候 shíhou ,失手 shī shǒu diào zài de .

They all asked her if she had dropped it in the stream bed when she fell.

Words with jiāo

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
摔跤 shuāi jiāo to wrestle摔跤 shuāi jiāo
jiāo a tumble jiāo
跌跤 diē jiāo to fall down跌跤 diē jiāo

jiāo Decomposition & Compounds

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