Kanji 校 — "School"
Here is what 校 means, how it is read, what it is built from, and a story that makes "School" stick.
How it is read
こう, きょう
the reading borrowed from Chinese — usually appears in compound words
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the native Japanese reading — usually appears when the kanji stands alone
How to remember it
Kanji are not random strokes. Learn the parts and the whole becomes easy. Put the parts together into one picture. The stranger it is, the harder it is to forget.
A building made of Trees where people Mix and mingle — teachers and students — this place is a School!
- 木 Tree
The shape of a Tree with branches at the top and a trunk in the middle.
- 交 Mix
Father put on a Top Hat and went to Mix with the crowd at the party — for the free food!
Words that use 校
12 of 14 words in the app that contain this kanji — the most common ones first.
- 学校 がっこう school
- 校長 こうちょう principal, headmaster
- 小学校 しょうがっこう elementary school
- 高校生 こうこうせい high school student
- 転校 てんこう change schools
- 中学校 ちゅうがっこう junior high school pupil
- 校舎 こうしゃ school building
- 校庭 こうてい school yard
- 登校 とうこう attendance (at school)
- 母校 ぼこう alma mater
- 高等学校 こうとうがっこう senior high school
- 高校; 高等学校 こうこう; こうとうがっこう high school, senior high school
Want 校 to still be there next month?
Reading it once is not remembering it. The app brings each kanji back right before you would have forgotten it.
