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Word and Radical Components of 学校

The Chinese word 学校 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.


Component Pinyin Meanings
学校 1. Simplified form of 學校

学校 ⇨ 学 + 校
Component Pinyin Meanings
1. Variant of 學
2. Variant of 孛
xiào 1. school; college; university
     軍校 - military school
xiào 2. (military) field officer
jiào 3. (historical) horsekeeper official
4. to proofread; to check; to compare
5. (printing) proof
6. (Cantonese) to adjust
     gaau3 - to adjust a watch to the correct time

学 ⇨ ⺍ + 冖 + 子
Component Pinyin Meanings
1.
1. cover
2. Variant of 冪
3. usage. As a component of other characters, 冖 can be referred to as 蓋頭 (Xiang).
1. (literary) child; offspring
2. son
     獨生子 - dúshēngzǐ - only son
     愛子 - àizǐ - beloved son
      - yī zǐ yī nǚ - one son and one daughter
3. (literary) descendant; posterity
4. (Christianity) the Son
5. (in compounds) person
     女子 (nǚzǐ) - female; woman
6. (literary) master; teacher
7. (literary) A respectful title for teachers, usually attached after their surnames.
     孔子 (Kǒngzǐ) - Master Kong (Confucius)
     老子 (Lǎozǐ) - Laozi
8. (literary, polite) you
9. Alternative form of 籽 (seed); also its second-round simplified form.
     葵花子 (kuíhuāzǐ) - sunflower seed
10. egg
     魚子 (yúzǐ) - caviar
11. young; tender; small
12. Prefix attached to nouns, denoting "a part of", "belonging to" or "individual". sub-
     子目錄 (zǐmùlù) - subdirectory
13. (astrology) First earthly branch: rat in the Chinese zodiac, 11th solar month, midnight (11:00 pm to 1:00 am)
14. (historical) viscount (fourth of five ranks of Chinese aristocracy under the Zhou dynasty)
15. (physics, biology) -on
16. (Min Nan) grain-like object; particle; granule
17. (Min Nan, music) rhythm
18. (Min Nan)
zi 19. Suffix:
20.    Used to nominalize.
21.    瓶子zi - píngzi - bottle
22.    刷子zi - shuāzi - brush
23.    胖子zi - pàngzi - fat person
24.    (colloquial) Used in some classifiers.
25.    一下子zi - yīxiàzi - all of a sudden
26. small, round object
     算盤子jí (sǹg-pôaⁿ-jí) - abacus bead, MN
27. (Xiamen, Quanzhou)
28. (Zhangzhou, Taiwan)

校 ⇨ 木 + 交
Component Pinyin Meanings
1. tree; woody plant
     Synonyms:
     樹木 - tree
     灌木 - shrub
     木芍藥 - tree peony
2. wood; timber
     木頭tou - log
3. wooden
      桌子 。 - This table is made of wood
4. simple; plain; slow; emotionless; wooden
     木訥 - plain spoken, slow and inarticulate
     棺木 - coffin
     就木 - to die (to enter one's coffin)
5. (Mandarin, neologism, slang) (eye dialect of zh, 沒)
     有木有 - innit, damn right
6. numb
     麻木 - numb, insensitive
      手指 。 - Her fingers were numb with cold.
jiāo 1. to intersect; to cross
     相交 - to intersect
      好運 - to meet with good fortune -
2. to reach (a certain time)
3. time or place where two things meet
      - when springs changes into summer -
     世紀 - the turn of the century -
     地處 shěnɡ - located where the borders of Henan and Shanxi meet
4. to hand over; to turn in; to submit
     交班 - to hand over to the next shift
      功課 - to turn in homework -
      ? - Have you paid rent?
      任務 ! - Please assign me the task!
5. to make (friends)
     .朋友 - to make a friend
      男朋友 - to get a boyfriend -
6. friendship; relationship
     邦交 - diplomatic relations
     泛泛之交 - acquaintance
     君子..... - True friendship between two men of accomplishment need not be overly demonstrative.
7. to have sexual intercourse; to mate
     肛交 - to have anal sex
     雜交 - to hybridize; to crossbreed
8. mutually; reciprocally
     交談 - to converse
     交易 - to trade
9. simultaneously; at the same time
10. 16th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "contact" (?)
11. (obsolete) Alternative form of 跤 (-)
12. (Hokkien, dated) (Used to refer to a private wholesale trading company)
     (Alternative form )
13. Variant of 跤
14. (Xiamen, Quanzhou, &, Philippines Hokkien) and
15. (Xiamen, Quanzhou, &, Philippines Hokkien) with; accompanying

交 ⇨ 亠 + 父
Component Pinyin Meanings
tóu 1. lid
2. couvercle (Kangxi radical)
1. father
     父親 (fùqīn) - (formal) father
     父母 (fùmǔ) - parents; father and mother
     父子 (fùzǐ) - father and son
     父女 (fùnǚ) - father and daughter
     父輩 (fùbèi) - one's father's generation
     家父 (jiāfù) - (humble) my father
     生父 (shēngfù) - biological father
     養父 (yǎngfù) - adoptive father
     繼父 (jìfù) - stepfather
     天父 (tiānfù) - (Christianity) Heavenly Father
     國父 (guófù) - father of a nation; (specifically) Father of the Republic (Sun Yat-sen)
     雜交 水稻 (zájiāo shuǐdào zhī fù) - (specifically) Father of Hybrid Rice (Yuan Longping)
     (ant, zh, )
2. (Used to address a male elder member of a family.)
     祖父 (zǔfù) - paternal grandfather (one's father's father)
     伯父 (bófù) - paternal uncle (father's elder brother)
     叔父 (shūfù) - paternal uncle (father's younger brother)
     岳父 (yuèfù) - father-in-law (wife's father)
     舅父 (jiùfù) - maternal uncle (mother's brother)
     姨父 (yífù) - maternal uncle (husband of mother's sister)
     姑父 (gūfù) - paternal uncle (husband of father's sister)
     (ant, zh, )
3. (literary, respectful) old man; elderly man
     漁父fǔ (yúfǔ) - old fisherman
     田父fǔ (tiánfǔ) - old farmer
4. (literary) Alternative form of 甫 ((honorific suffix used after a man's name;) courtesy name)
     梁父梁甫山) (Liángfǔshān (Liángfǔshān)) - Mount Liangfu (alternately, Mount Liangfu) (in Shandong, China)