郊
jiāoJiāo HSK5

suburbs, outskirts

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approved by Hsmq · Mar 11, 2026, 01:10 PM · Reviewed by Prismcool on Mar 11, 2026, 03:00 PM

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Phonosemantic compound. ⻏ represents the meaning and 交 represents the sound.

Components

交
交 Sound component
⻏
⻏ Meaning component

⻏ is a component form of 邑.

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartkaew[k]ˤraw suburb

說文解字

《說文》：“郊，距國百里為郊。从邑，交聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)