Chinese symbol for “education”
教育
jiào yù
to educate; to teach; education
The closest CC-CEDICT match for education is 教育 (jiào yù), defined as: to educate; to teach; education.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “education”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 培养 (培養) | péi yǎng | to cultivate; to breed |
| 弦歌 | xián gē | to sing to a string accompaniment; education (a reference to teaching the people Confucian values by means of song in ancient times) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 教育.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 教师 (教師) | jiào shī | teacher; 个 (gè) |
| 宗教 | zōng jiào | religion |
| 教授 | jiāo shòu | to teach (a subject) |
| 教学 (教學) | jiāo xué | to teach |
| 体育 (體育) | tǐ yù | sports; physical education |
| 发育 (發育) | fā yù | to develop; to mature |
| 培育 | péi yù | to train; to breed |
| 生育 | shēng yù | to give birth to; to bear; fertility |
See also: Japanese symbol for “education”.
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.