校 — school, proof, correction

こう校 school

Grade 1 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 10 strokes school

U+6821 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #294 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #293 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

school
proof
correction

word

こう kou On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

校(こう) kou school 学(がく) 校(こう) gakkou school 小(しょう) 学(がっ) 校(こう) shougakkou elementary school 中(ちゅう) 学(がっ) 校(こう) chuugakkou middle school 校(こう) 正(せい) kousei proofreading 小(しょう) 中(ちゅう) 学(がっ) 校(こう) shouchuugakkou elementary and middle school 休(きゅう) 校(こう) kyuukou school closure 高(こう) 校(こう) koukou high school

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

き木 tree #75

まじわる交 interchange

Phono-semantic compound (形声). 木 (tree/wood) gives the semantic element. 交 (kō, cross/exchange) provides the sound. A school is where knowledge is exchanged.

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#75 木 tree