敎
부수: 攵
획수: 11획
敎 has the meanings to teach, doctrine and religion.
敎 = 𡥉 + 攵
X = semantic/phonetic + semantic
• 敎 depicts a child 子 being taught arithmetic 爻 under the threat of a beating 攵.
• 𡥉 is comprised of 爻 (two fives) and 子 (child) and represents ‘a child being taught numbers’.
• 攵 originally depicted a hand holding a whip and represents the meaning ‘to strike’. 攵 is a simplification of 攴.
Evolution:
敎 = to teach ➔ teachings ➔ doctrine ➔ religion
𡥉 = 爻 + 子
• 爻 depicts crisscrossed lines and is the original form of ‘five’ 五. In Chinese and Japanese, this has been replaced by 耂.
• 子 depicts a child and represents the meaning ‘student’.
Mnemonic
Imagine a student 子 being tested on multiplication tables 爻. The teacher will give them a beating if 攵 they get an answer wrong.
Vocab
| 敎育 | 교육 | education; training |
| 敎室 | 교실 | classroom |
| 敎授 | 교수 | professor; teaching |
| 敎師 | 교사 | instructor; teacher |
| 敎材 | 교재 | teaching materials |
| 敎職 | 교직 | teaching profession |
| 胎敎 | 태교 | prenatal care/education |
| 敎訓 | 교훈 | lesson from experience |
| 敎養 | 교양 | culturally refined |
| 敎科書 | 교과서 | textbook; coursebook |
| 敎育學 | 교육학 | pedagogy |
| 敎條主義 | 교조주의 | dogmatism |
| 宗敎 | 종교 | religion |
| 敎會 | 교회 | church |
| 說敎 | 설교 | sermon |
| 敎皇 | 교황 | Pope |
| 宣敎 | 선교 | missionary work |
| 敎徒 | 교도 | believer |
| 佛敎 | 불교 | Buddhism |
| 道敎 | 도교 | Taoism |
| 儒敎 | 유교 | Confucianism |
| 基督敎 | 기독교 | Christianity |
| 天道敎 | 천도교 | Cheondoism |
| 이슬람敎 | 이슬람교 | Islam |
Additional notes
敎 is no longer the standard form in Chinese and Japanese where it has been replaced by 教.
敎 (Former|U+654E)
教 (Standard|U+6559)
This character must not be confused with 校 (교|학교), as in 校時 (교시|class period).
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Affiliate links help support uK.
— Daum 사전, [s.v. 敎].
— Grant, B.K. (1982). A Guide To Korean Characters: Reading and Writing Hangul and Hanja, [s.v. 950]. Seoul: Hollym.
— Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters, [s.v. 敎, 𡥉, 爻, 子, 攵].
— Seely, C., Henshall, K.G., & Fan, J. (2016). The Complete Guide to Japanese Kanji: Remembering and Understanding the 2,136 Standard Japanese Characters, [s.v. 112]. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing.