校

Stroke order

校 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 木卜金大 (DYCK), four-corner 4094₈, composition ⿰木交)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 522, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14713
• Dae Jaweon: page 910, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1205, character 8
• Unihan data for U+6821

Historical forms of the character 校
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kreːws, *ɡreːws): semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 交 (OC *kreːw).

校

1. school; college; university

   軍校／军校  ―  jūnxiào  ―  military school

2. a surname

校

1. (military) field officer

A derivative, with causative suffix -s, of 交 (OC *kreːw). (Schuessler, 2007).

校

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) fetters; shackles
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) railing; barracks
3. (historical) horsekeeper official
4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to examine; to check
5. to proofread; to check; to compare
6. (printing) proof
7. (Cantonese) to adjust

   校返啱隻錶／校返啱只表 [Cantonese]  ―  gaau³ faan¹ ngaam¹ zek³ biu¹   ―  to adjust a watch to the correct time

   校鬧鐘／校闹钟 [Cantonese]  ―  gaau³ naau⁶ zung¹   ―  to set an alarm clock

8. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to oppose; to resist
9. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to contest
10. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to bother about; to fuss about
11. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to decorate

    莊校／庄校  ―  zhuāngjiào  ―  to adorn

12. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to calculate

• “校”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• (Cantonese) 粵音資料集叢
• 李如龙 , 刘福铸 , 吴华英 , 黄国城 (2019) “校（学～）”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 178.

Shinjitai	校
Kyūjitai	校󠄁 校+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
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(First grade kyōiku kanji)

1. school building
2. shackles

• Go-on: きょう (kyō)、ぎょう (gyō)
• Kan-on: こう (kō, Jōyō)
• Kun: あぜ (aze, 校)、かせ (kase, 校)

• 学校(がっこう) (gakkō): school
• 校僕(こうぼく) (kōboku): school custodian
• 校舎(こうしゃ) (kōsha): school building
• 校門(こうもん) (kōmon): school gate

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

校(こう) • (-kō) 

1. schools

From Middle Chinese 校 (MC kaewH).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

校

Wikisource

校 (eumhun 학교 교 (hakgyo gyo))

1. hanja form^? of 교 (“school; educational establishment”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

校: Hán Nôm readings: hiệu, chò, giâu, giáo, hào

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