蛟 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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jiāo

scaly dragon with four legs

Phonosemantic compound. 虫 represents the meaning and 交 represents the sound.

Components

虫 Meaning component

chóng

bug, insect

交 Sound component

jiāo

to cross

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

jiāo

scaly dragon with four legs; a legendary dragon with the ability to control rain and floods; see also 蛟龍|蛟龙[jiāolóng]

Most common words with 蛟

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	蛟龙	legendary dragon with the ability to control rain and floods
	蛟	see also 蛟龍\|蛟龙[jiāolóng]
	蛟河市	Jiaohe county level city in Jilin prefecture 吉林, Jilin province
	蛟河	Jiaohe county level city in Jilin prefecture 吉林, Jilin province

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3467th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	12
Unicode	U+86DF
Shuowen	“蛟，龍之屬也。池魚滿三千六百，蛟來為之長，能率魚飛。置笱水中，即蛟去。从虫，交聲。”

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