教
jiàojiāo HSK1

teach

教 jiào frequency
to instruct verb
(bound form) to teach or educate; to guide or instruct

他的父亲在一所社区大学教书，母亲在他就读的高中任教。

tā de fù​qīn zài yī suǒ shè​qū dà​xué jiāo shū, mǔ​qīn zài tā jiù​dú de gāo​zhōng rèn jiào.

His father taught at a community college, and his mother taught at the high school he attended.

religion noun
(bound form) a religion or system of belief
education noun
(bound form) education or the teaching profession
to cause verb
To cause or tell someone to do something; now more commonly written as 叫 jiào.
Jiao
A Chinese surname.
precepts
(bound form) rules of conduct; etiquette; social standards
教 jiāo
to teach verb
To teach or instruct; to pass on knowledge or skills.

现在我教高中英语了。

xiàn​zài wǒ jiāo gāo​zhōng yīng​yǔ le.

I teach high-school English now.

他父亲教他努力工作。

tā fù​qīn jiāo tā nǔ​lì gōng​zuò.

His father taught him to work hard.

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Frequency
Character
Written text
191st most common 1079.4 per million
Movie subtitles
335th most common 464.7 per million appears in 73% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
152.8 per million appears in 39% of films
Written text
98.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+6559

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)