校 (haau6 gaau3 | xiao4 jiao4) : school; field officer; check

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校

haau6 gaau3

xiao4 jiao4

[粵] haau6 | [國] xiao4
[n] school

[粵] gaau3 | [國] xiao4
[n] field officer

[粵] gaau3 | [國] jiao4
[1] [v] check; proofread; collate
[2] [v] compare; contrast; contest

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Stroke count: 10

Level: 1

Radical: 木 (#75)

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

校

This word has been viewed 9439 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 7th Aug 2013 01:55

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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 xiao4 you3 = schoolmate; alumni; old boy

校園 haau6 jyun4 xiao4 yuan2 = campus

校正 gaau3 zing3 jiao4 zheng4 = rectify; proofread; correct; amend; see also 糾正

夜校 je6 haau6 ye4 xiao4 = night school

校工 haau6 gung1 xiao4 gong1 = school caretaker

名校 ming4 haau6 ming2 xiao4 = elite school

軍校 gwan1 haau6 jun1 xiao4 = military academy; military school

寄宿學校 gei3 suk1 hok6 haau6 ji4 su4 xue2 xiao4 = boarding school
See all 76 compounds (CantoDict reports 82 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.

學校咁大﹐唔知去邊度搵佢至啱。粵
The school is so big. I wonder which way I should actually go to find him.
[唔知 ("don't know") and 至啱 ("most correct") function as a split phrase. The slot between them can be filled by any verb phrase of interrogative nature. ]

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

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