Chinese Character 交 Meanings and components.

Form

交

Meaning

交 meaning^[3] in English

To Hand Over.

To Deliver.

To Pay (Money).

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi^[2] character 交 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'lid' radical in … (亠) , and father (父)

Its radical^[1] is: 亠 (tou2) which means: 'Lid' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 8), .亠tou2'lid' radical …

In cangjie it is written with YCK

How to write 交

To write交jiao1to hand … you should write a combination of 亠tou2'lid' radical … , 父fu4father arranged in a 吕 shape:

亠 + 父 = 交

交 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 交 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 交, looks as follow:

交

Pinyin:jiao1 Shape:吕

Meaning^[3]: To Hand Over . To Deliver . To Pay (Money) . To Turn Over . To Make Friends . To Intersect (Lines) . Variant Of 跤[Jiao1]

亠

Pinyin:tou2

Meaning^[3]: 'Lid' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 8)

父

Pinyin:fu4

Meaning^[3]: Father

Notes

[1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical
[2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter
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