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Chinese symbol for “quintessential”

教科书式
jiào kē shū shì
Traditional: 教科書式
(neologism c. 2018) worthy of being used as a textbook example; exemplary; classic; quintessential

The closest CC-CEDICT match for quintessential is 教科书式 (jiào kē shū shì), defined as: (neologism c. 2018) worthy of being used as a textbook example; exemplary; classic; quintessential.

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Characters and stroke order

教 jiào
school, education
radical 66 ⽁ · 11 strokes
科 kē
section, department; field, branch; science
radical 115 ⽲ · 9 strokes
书 shū
book, letter, document; writing
radical 5 ⼄ · 4 strokes
式 shì
formula, pattern, rule, style, system
radical 56 ⼷ · 6 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 教科书式.

WordPinyinMeaning
教育jiào yùto educate; to teach
教师 (教師)jiào shīteacher; 个 (gè)
宗教zōng jiàoreligion
教授jiāo shòuto teach (a subject)
教学 (教學)jiāo xuéto teach
科技kē jìscience and technology
科学 (科學)kē xuéscience; scientific knowledge
科学家 (科學家)kē xué jiāscientist
书记 (書記)shū jisecretary (head of a Communist Party or Communist Youth League organization); clerk; scribe
方式fāng shìway; method; manner; mode; pattern (of behavior etc); 种 (zhǒng)

See also: Japanese symbol for “quintessential”.

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.

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