jiào comparatively; to contrast; to compare

Made up of [ chē vehicle radical 159, jiāo to hand over; to deliver; to turn over ]
Alternative traditional form of character:
Made with 10 strokes.
The vehicle radical can be thought of as suggesting a race to compare chariots but 'jiao' is the phonetic

Related characters


Also uses chē component: lián (to link) liàng (collective word for vehicles) ; ruǎn (soft) ; zài (to carry)
Also uses jiāo component: jiǎo (dumpling) jiāo (suburbs) ; jiāo (to glue) ; xiào (school) ; xiào (effect) ; yǎo (to bite)

Sounds same

jiào (called) ; jiào (religion)

Different tone

jiāo (to teach) ; jiāo (to hand over) ; jiāo (suburbs) ; jiāo (to glue) ; jiǎo (horn) ; jiǎo (dumpling)

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Pronunciation

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