校 (haau6 gaau3 | xiao4 jiao3) : school

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校

haau6 gaau3

xiao4 jiao3

[1] [n] ([粵]: haau6) school
[2] ([粵]: gaau3) military field officer

Stroke count: 10

Level: 2

Radical: 木 (#75)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

校

This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 30th Mar 2010 05:59

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小學校 siu2 hok6 haau6 xiao3 xue2 xiao4 = small school

學校 hok6 haau6 xue2 xiao4 = school

校友 haau6 jau5 = a schoolmate; an old boy; alumni 國

校園 haau6 jyun4*2 xiao4 yuan2 = campus

夜校 je6 haau6 ye4 xiao4 = night school

名校 ming4 haau6 ming2 xiao4 = elite school

寄宿學校 gei3 suk1 hok6 haau6 ji4 su4 xue2 xiao4 = boarding school

校長 haau6 zoeng2 xiao4 zhang3 = school principal

校友會 haau6 jau5 wui6*2 = alumni association

母校 mou5 haau6 mu3 xiao4 = alma mater, one's old school
See all 75 compounds (CantoDict reports 79 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

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我喺學校做嘢粵
I work at school

還帶著睡眼惺忪的小學生在路旁等校車。國
The sleepy-eyed students are waiting for the school bus by the road.

“自學”，顧名思義，就是不在學校學，也沒有老師指點，全靠自己學習。
As the name implies, "Self-study" does not involve going to school where teachers are there to teach and guide; one learns on his own.

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Decimal representation of this word: 校
Unicode code for this character: U+6821 (off-site link)

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