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交
Mandarin · pinyin jiāo
Meanings
- to hand over; to deliver; to pay (money); to turn over
- to make friends
- (of lines) to intersect
- variant of 跤 jiāo
Characters in this entry
- 交
- jiāo · mix; intersect; exchange, communicate; deliver
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Mandarin tones
1 · jiao1
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
gaau1
Cantonese word readings for 交. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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character · Etymology 1
- to intersect; to cross
- to reach (a certain time)
- time or place where two things meet
- to hand over; to turn in; to submit
- to make (friends)
- friendship; relationship
- to have sexual intercourse; to mate
- mutually; reciprocally
- simultaneously; at the same time
- 16th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "contact" (𝌕)
- (obsolete) alternative form of 跤
- (Hokkien, dated) Used to refer to a private wholesale trading company
character · Etymology 3
- (Xiamen, Quanzhou and Philippine Hokkien) and
- (Xiamen, Quanzhou and Philippine Hokkien) with; accompanying
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