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校 — to check; to collate; to proofread

Pinyin
jiào · xiào
Strokes
10
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — jiào, xiào — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 校: 10 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

校 — 10 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 校 in the HSK syllabus: 4

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 学校xuéxiàoschoolHSK 1
  2. 校园xiàoyuáncampusHSK 3
  3. 校长xiàozhǎngpresident; headmasterHSK 3
  4. 夜校yèxiàoevening school; night schoolHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.