Tom knows a lot of people.
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交
jiāo
HSK 3.0 · 2HSK 2.0 · 4
Yue Tan · University of Caen; © 2009 Yue Tan. MP3 preparation: Hugo Lopez / audio-cmn · CC BY-SA 3.0 US
jiāo · gaau1 (Jyutping)
- to hand over; to deliver; to pay (money); to turn over
- to make friends
- (of lines) to intersect
- variant of 跤[jiao1]
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Character breakdown
交
- Meaning
- mix; intersect; exchange, communicate; deliver
- Radical
- 亠
- Strokes
- 6
- Components
- ⿱六乂
- Cangjie
- YCK
- Four-corner
- 0040.8
Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3. Make Me a Hanzi · LGPL 3+. Interactive stroke order is available in the study tools.
Example sentences
We got to be friends.
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