"jiao" meaning in All languages combined

See jiao on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /dʒjaʊ/, /dʒiˈaʊ/ Forms: jiao [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 角 (jiǎo). Doublet of kak. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|cmn|-}} Mandarin, {{zh-l|角}} 角 (jiǎo), {{doublet|en|kak}} Doublet of kak Head templates: {{en-noun|*}} jiao (plural jiao)
  1. (numismatics) A currency unit of the People's Republic of China, one tenth of a yuan. Related terms: yuan, fen Translations (a currency unit of the People's Republic of China, one tenth of a yuan): (kak) [Hokkien] (Chinese), (hou⁴) (Chinese Cantonese), 毫子 (hou⁴ zi²) (Chinese Cantonese), (jiǎo) (Chinese Mandarin), (máo) [colloquial] (Chinese Mandarin), 角子 (jiǎozi) [regional] (Chinese Mandarin), (háo) [dialectal] (Chinese Mandarin), (kaku) (alt: かく) (Japanese), (gak) (Korean), цзя́о (czjáo) [masculine, neuter] (Russian), gak (Zhuang)

Romanization [Mandarin]

Head templates: {{cmn-pinyin|notr=1}} jiao
  1. nonstandard spelling of jiāo Tags: alt-of, nonstandard Alternative form of: jiāo
    Sense id: en-jiao-cmn-romanization--1Jc-i8D Categories (other): Mandarin entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant script codes Disambiguation of Mandarin entries with incorrect language header: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Mandarin terms with redundant script codes: 25 25 25 25
  2. nonstandard spelling of jiáo Tags: alt-of, nonstandard Alternative form of: jiáo
    Sense id: en-jiao-cmn-romanization-KQkXgq51 Categories (other): Mandarin entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant script codes Disambiguation of Mandarin entries with incorrect language header: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Mandarin terms with redundant script codes: 25 25 25 25
  3. nonstandard spelling of jiǎo Tags: alt-of, nonstandard Alternative form of: jiǎo
    Sense id: en-jiao-cmn-romanization-dKOMA3dz Categories (other): Mandarin entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant script codes Disambiguation of Mandarin entries with incorrect language header: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Mandarin terms with redundant script codes: 25 25 25 25
  4. nonstandard spelling of jiào Tags: alt-of, nonstandard Alternative form of: jiào
    Sense id: en-jiao-cmn-romanization-lQ8hAAVL Categories (other): Mandarin entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant script codes Disambiguation of Mandarin entries with incorrect language header: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Mandarin terms with redundant script codes: 25 25 25 25

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-02 using wiktextract (6fdc867 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.