Chinese symbol for “proofread”
校
jiào
to check; to collate; to proofread
The closest CC-CEDICT match for proofread is 校 (jiào), defined as: to check; to collate; to proofread.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “proofread”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 参校 (參校) | cān jiào | to proofread; to revise one or more editions of a text using an authoritative edition as a source book |
| 校对 (校對) | jiào duì | proofreader; to proofread |
| 校阅 (校閱) | jiào yuè | to check through (a document); to proofread |
| 雠 (讎) | chóu | to collate; to proofread |
| 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.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 学校 (學校) | xué xiào | school; measure word: 所 (suǒ) |
| 校长 (校長) | xiào zhǎng | (college, university) president; headmaster |
| 校园 (校園) | xiào yuán | campus |
| 高校 | gāo xiào | universities and colleges; abbr. for 高等學校|高等学校 |
| 院校 | yuàn xiào | college; academy |
| 校区 (校區) | xiào qū | campus |
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.