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Chinese symbol for “collate”

校
jiào
to check; to collate; to proofread

The closest CC-CEDICT match for collate is 校 (jiào), defined as: to check; to collate; to proofread.

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Characters and stroke order

校 jiào
school; military field officer
radical 75 ⽊ · 10 strokes

Other Chinese words for “collate”

WordPinyinMeaning
校勘jiào kānto collate
雠 (讎)chóuto collate; to proofread
整理zhěng lǐto arrange; to tidy up
勘kānto investigate; to survey
斠jiào(old) instrument to even out the grain in a measuring vessel; to proofread

Related words

Other words that share a character with 校.

WordPinyinMeaning
学校 (學校)xué xiàoschool; measure word: 所 (suǒ)
校长 (校長)xiào zhǎng(college, university) president; headmaster
校园 (校園)xiào yuáncampus
高校gāo xiàouniversities and colleges; abbr. for 高等學校|高等学校
院校yuàn xiàocollege; academy
校区 (校區)xiào qūcampus

See also: Japanese symbol for “collate”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.