IDENTITY
校xiàoschool
HSK 1Top 420
CORE MEANING
school
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.schoolHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 木tree radical (mù)
- strokes
- 10
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰木交
- wooden halls
- gives the sound xiào (historical)
USAGE
Common words
学校xuéxiàoschool
校长xiàozhǎngprincipal
校园xiàoyuáncampus
Graded examples
他每天走路去学校。Tā měitiān zǒulù qù xuéxiào.HSK2
He walks to school every day.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 较
LEARNING
Memory aid
Wooden halls (木) where people meet and exchange (交) — school.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #420
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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